Measles and the 2019 Hajj: the risk of magnifying the global measles surge

J Travel Med. 2019 Sep 2;26(6):taz041. doi: 10.1093/jtm/taz041.

Ziad A Memish^{1

2

3}, Anas A Khan^{4

5}, Shahul Ebrahim⁶

¹ Infectious Diseases Division, Department of Medicine and Department of Research, Prince Mohammed Bin Abdulaziz Hospital, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
² College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
³ Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
⁴ Global Center for Mass Gathering Medicine, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
⁵ Department of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
⁶ School of Public Health, University of Bamako, Bamako, Mali.

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Keywords: Saudi Arabia; infectious disease outbreak; mass gathering; measles epidemic.

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