Australian Hajj pilgrims' perception about mass casualty incidents versus emerging infections at Hajj

Amani S Alqahtani; Kaoruko Yamazaki; Wejdan H Alqahtani; Mohamed Tashani; Anita E Heywood; Robert Booy; Kerrie E Wiley; Harunor Rashid

doi:10.1016/j.tmaid.2016.11.002

Australian Hajj pilgrims' perception about mass casualty incidents versus emerging infections at Hajj

Travel Med Infect Dis. 2017 Jan-Feb:15:81-83. doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2016.11.002. Epub 2016 Nov 14.

Authors

Amani S Alqahtani¹, Kaoruko Yamazaki², Wejdan H Alqahtani³, Mohamed Tashani⁴, Anita E Heywood⁵, Robert Booy⁶, Kerrie E Wiley⁷, Harunor Rashid⁸

Affiliations

¹ National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases (NCIRS), The Children's Hospital at Westmead, New South Wales, Australia; School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Electronic address: amani.alqahtani@health.nsw.gov.au.
² School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
³ King Khalid University, School of Applied Medical Science, Abha, Saudi Arabia.
⁴ National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases (NCIRS), The Children's Hospital at Westmead, New South Wales, Australia; The Discipline of Child and Adolescent Health, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
⁵ School of Public Health and Community Medicine, The University of New South Wales, Australia, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
⁶ National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases (NCIRS), The Children's Hospital at Westmead, New South Wales, Australia; The Discipline of Child and Adolescent Health, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, Sydney, Australia; WHO Collaborating Centre for Mass Gatherings and High Consequence/High Visibility Events, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.
⁷ National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases (NCIRS), The Children's Hospital at Westmead, New South Wales, Australia; School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
⁸ National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases (NCIRS), The Children's Hospital at Westmead, New South Wales, Australia; The Discipline of Child and Adolescent Health, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, Sydney, Australia.

No abstract available

Keywords: Emerging diseases; Hajj; Mass casualty incidents; Mass gatherings; Risk perception; Stampedes.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Adult
Australia
Communicable Diseases, Emerging / psychology*
Cross-Sectional Studies
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice*
Humans
Islam*
Mass Casualty Incidents* / prevention & control
Mass Casualty Incidents* / psychology
Mass Casualty Incidents* / statistics & numerical data
Saudi Arabia
Travel*