Journal
LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages 66-74Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(11)70246-8
Keywords
-
Categories
Funding
- UK National Institute for Health Research
- European Union
Ask authors/readers for more resources
We assess risks of communicable diseases that are associated with mass gatherings (MGs), outline approaches to risk assessment and mitigation, and draw attention to some key challenges encountered by organisers and participants. Crowding and lack of sanitation at MGs can lead to the emergence of infectious diseases, and rapid population movement can spread them across the world. Many infections pose huge challenges to planners of MGs; however, these events also provide an opportunity to engage in public health action that will benefit host communities and the countries from which participants originate.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available