Modelling the importation risk of measles during the Hajj

Affiliations

¹ School of Applied Mathematics, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, Brazil.
² University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
³ Department of Disease Control, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK; Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg Germany. Electronic address: annelies.wilder-smith@lshtm.ac.uk.
⁴ Infectious Diseases Division, Department of Medicine & Department of Research, Prince Mohamed Bin Abdulaziz Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Ministry of Health, College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Eduard Massad et al. Lancet Infect Dis. 2019 Aug.

. 2019 Aug;19(8):806.

doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(19)30356-1.

¹ School of Applied Mathematics, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, Brazil.
² University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
³ Department of Disease Control, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK; Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg Germany. Electronic address: annelies.wilder-smith@lshtm.ac.uk.
⁴ Infectious Diseases Division, Department of Medicine & Department of Research, Prince Mohamed Bin Abdulaziz Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Ministry of Health, College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.

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Comment in

No measles cases during the 2019 Hajj.
Yezli S, Bieh K, Khan A. Yezli S, et al. Lancet Infect Dis. 2019 Nov;19(11):1169-1170. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(19)30542-0. Lancet Infect Dis. 2019. PMID: 31657777 No abstract available.