Health risks among travelers to Brazil: Implications for the 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2016 olympic games

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 205-207

  Wilson, Mary Elizabeth ^a   Chen, Lin H ^b,c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

YELLOW FEVER VACCINE;

BRAZIL; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CHIKUNGUNYA; CUTANEOUS LARVA MIGRANS; DENGUE; EDITORIAL; EMPORIATRICS; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; FEVER; FLY BITE; HEALTH HAZARD; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALARIA; MYIASIS; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SPORT; TRAVEL; TROPICAL DISEASE; TROPICS; TUNGIASIS; VACCINATION; YELLOW FEVER; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK;

BRAZIL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK; SPORTS; TRAVEL; TRAVEL MEDICINE;

EID: 84901842510     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: 18730442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2014.04.001     Document Type: Editorial

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