A crucial time for public health preparedness: Zika virus and the 2016 Olympics, Umrah, and Hajj

The Lancet

Volumn 387, Issue 10019, 2016, Pages 630-632

  Elachola, Habida ^a   Gozzer, Ernesto ^b   Zhuo, Jiatong ^c   Memish, Ziad A ^d,e  

^a Instituto Nacional de Salud ^*  (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD   (Peru)

^c Guangxi Centers for Disease Prevention and Control   (China)

^d MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Saudi Arabia)

^e ALFAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECT REPELLENT;

HUMAN; MICROCEPHALY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ZIKA VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION; BRAZIL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM VIRAL DISEASES; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; ISLAM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; SAUDI ARABIA; SPORT; SYMBOLISM; TRAVEL; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AMERICAS; BRAZIL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM VIRAL DISEASES; CEREMONIAL BEHAVIOR; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISLAM; MICROCEPHALY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SAUDI ARABIA; SPORTS; TRAVEL; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 84957851755     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00274-9     Document Type: Note

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