Reducing the threat of epidemic-prone infections at mass gathering religious events

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Infection, Division of Infection and Immunity, Centre for Clinical Microbiology, University College London and NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London NW1 OPE, UK. Electronic address: a.zumla@ucl.ac.uk.
• ² Emergency Preparedness and Response Programme, WHO Regional Office for Africa, Dakar Hub, Dakar, Senegal.
• ³ Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Abuja, Nigeria.
• ⁴ Congolese Foundation for Medical Research, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, and Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
• ⁵ DBT-National Centre for Cell Science, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
• ⁶ Special Infectious Agents Unit, King Fahd Medical Research Center and Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
• ⁷ Syria Public Health Network and Department of Infection, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK.