Infectious diseases threats at the Arba'een - a neglected but one of the largest annually recurring mass gathering religious events

Shuja Shafi; Esam Azhar; Seif Al-Abri; Avinash Sharma; Nizar Merali; Jaffar A Al-Tawfiq; Sherif A El-Kafrawy; Alimuddin Zumla; Shui Shan Lee

doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2022.09.010

Infectious diseases threats at the Arba'een - a neglected but one of the largest annually recurring mass gathering religious events

Int J Infect Dis. 2022 Oct:123:210-211. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2022.09.010. Epub 2022 Sep 13.

Authors

Shuja Shafi¹, Esam Azhar², Seif Al-Abri³, Avinash Sharma⁴, Nizar Merali⁵, Jaffar A Al-Tawfiq⁶, Sherif A El-Kafrawy⁷, Alimuddin Zumla⁸, Shui Shan Lee⁹

Affiliations

¹ Mass Gatherings and Global Health Network, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: msshafi12@gmail.com.
² Special Infectious Agents Unit BSL-3, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia; Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia. Electronic address: eazhar@kau.edu.sa.
³ International Society for Infectious Diseases; Directorate General for Disease Surveillance and Control, Ministry of Health, P.O. Box 393, 100, Muscat, Oman. Electronic address: salabri@gmail.com.
⁴ DBT-National Centre for Cell Science, Pune, India. Electronic address: avinash.nccs@gmail.com.
⁵ General Practice Direct, Harrow HA2 0RQ, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: nizarmerali@nhs.net.
⁶ International Society for Infectious Diseases; Infectious Disease Unit, Specialty Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, USA; Infectious Disease Division, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. Electronic address: jaltawfi@yahoo.com.
⁷ Special Infectious Agents Unit BSL-3, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia; Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia. Electronic address: saelkfrawy@kau.edu.sa.
⁸ Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, United Kingdom; NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, UCL Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: a.zumla@ucl.ac.uk.
⁹ International Society for Infectious Diseases; Stanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. Electronic address: sslee@cuhk.edu.hk.

PMID: 36108958
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2022.09.010

No abstract available

Keywords: Infectious diseases outbreaks; Mass gathering; Religious events.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Communicable Diseases* / epidemiology
Crowding
Disease Outbreaks
Humans
Mass Gatherings*