Risk of symptomatic dengue for foreign visitors to the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Massad, Eduardo, Wilder-Smith, Annelies, Ximenes, Raphael, Amaku, Marcos, Lopez, Luis Fernandez, Coutinho, Francisco Antonio Bezerra, Coelho, Giovanini Evelim, Da Silva Jr, Jarbas Barbosa, Struchiner, Claudio José, Burattini, Marcelo Nascimento
• مؤلفون آخرون: Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine)
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2014
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Science::Medicine
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/103736; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/20974
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

Brazil will host the FIFA World Cup™, the biggest single-event competition in the world, from June 12-July 13 2014 in 12 cities. This event will draw an estimated 600,000 international visitors. Brazil is endemic for dengue. Hence, attendees of the 2014 event are theoretically at risk for dengue. We...