Disease Surveillance During a Large Religious Mass Gathering in India –The Prayagraj Kumbh 2019 Experience

Mass gatherings (MG) for religious events are a source of religious and cultural tourism within the country of origin and abroad. It involves an influx of a large number of people to a fixed site for a specific duration. The increase in crowd density can have health implications –for communicable disease transmission due to increase in intermixing of healthy and diseased population and exposure to microbes; strain in the burden on existing medical care, water and sanitation services; the threat of mass casualties due to stampede and terrorism (Memish et al., 2019).

Source: International Journal of Infectious Diseases - September 22, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Vikasendu Aggrawal, Tanzin Dikid, S.K. Jain, Pradeep Khasnobis, Sushma Choudhary, Ramesh Chandra, Amol Patil, Kiran Kumar Maramraj, Ashok Talyan, Akhileshwar Singh, Binoy S. Babu, Akshay Kumar, Davendra Kumar, Jayanti Singh, Rakesh Kumar, S.S. Qadri, Pree Source Type: research