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Article Dans Une Revue International Journal of Infectious Diseases Année : 2016

What is the experience from previous mass gathering events? Lessons for ă Zika virus and the Olympics 2016

A. Zumla
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B. Mccloskey
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A. A. Bin Saeed
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O. Dar
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B. Al Ă Otabi
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S. Perlmann
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N. Roy
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L. Ă Blumberg
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E. I. Azhar
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M. Barbeschi
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Z. Memish
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E. Petersen
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Résumé

All previous experiences from different mass gathering show that vaccine ă preventable diseases is the most important infections like influenza, ă hepatitis A, polio and meningitis. Three mass gathering held in Africa ă during the Ebola outbreak accepted participants from West Africa and was ă able to handle the theoretical risk without any incident. Therefore we ă believe that the Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro should not be ă cancelled. The number of visitors to the games is a tiny fraction (1%) ă of other visitors to Zika endemic countries and it will have no ă measurable effect on the risk of spreading Zika virus, if the games was ă cancelled. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of ă International Society for Infectious Diseases.

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hal-01465099 , version 1 (10-02-2017)

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A. Zumla, B. Mccloskey, A. A. Bin Saeed, O. Dar, B. Al Ă Otabi, et al.. What is the experience from previous mass gathering events? Lessons for ă Zika virus and the Olympics 2016. International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2016, 47, pp.1-4. ⟨10.1016/j.ijid.2016.06.010⟩. ⟨hal-01465099⟩

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