Staying healthy during WorldPride 2017

(European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)) ECDC has published a rapid risk assessment to assess the risk of outbreaks and transmission of communicable diseases during the WorldPride festival period taking place in Madrid in June 2017. For respiratory and vector-borne diseases, the risk is considered low, for food and waterborne diseases the risk is low to moderate, for vaccine-preventable diseases, it is moderate and for sexually transmitted infections, the risk is moderate to high.
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news