Mass Gatherings and Emerging Infectious Diseases: Monkeypox is the Newest Challenge

J Epidemiol Glob Health. 2022 Sep;12(3):215-218. doi: 10.1007/s44197-022-00059-z.

Jaffar A Al-Tawfiq^{1

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3}, Rana F Kattan⁴, Ziad A Memish^{5

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¹ Infectious Disease Unit, Specialty Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
² Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
³ Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁴ Division Head Inpatient General Pediatric, Pediatric Department, College of Medicine, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdullah Specialist Children's Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
⁵ King Saud Medical City, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. zmemish@yahoo.com.
⁶ Al-Faisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. zmemish@yahoo.com.
⁷ Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA. zmemish@yahoo.com.

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Keywords: COVID-19; Hajj; Mass gatherings; Monkeypox; Religious events; SARS-CoV-2; Umrah.

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