Ahmed Qanta A, Memish Ziad A
Division of Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Winthrop University Hospital; State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, 11790, USA.
Ministry of Health, Riyadh, 11514, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Front Med. 2016 Dec;10(4):527-530. doi: 10.1007/s11684-016-0487-2. Epub 2016 Dec 23.
Hajj is among the world's largest mass gatherings, drawing between 2 and 3.5 million Muslims from 183 nations annually to perform pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Infectious disease outbreaks can be imported both into the Hajj population and exported internationally by returning pilgrims. The domestic Saudi population can also be at risk of outbreaks traveling amid this mass migration. With yellow fever reported for the first time in China following the infection of expatriate Chinese workers in Angola and a full blown outbreak underway in wider West Africa, the prospect of yellow fever outbreaks in Asia threatens to impact Saudi Arabia, both during and beyond the Hajj season. With global focus trained on Zika, the rising threat of yellow fever cannot be overlooked. Strategies to mitigate risk to Saudi Arabia and the global population are thereby suggested.
朝觐是世界上规模最大的群众集会之一，每年吸引来自183个国家的200万至350万穆斯林前往沙特阿拉伯麦加进行朝圣。传染病疫情既可能传入朝觐人群，也可能由返程的朝圣者传播至国际。在这次大规模迁徙中，沙特本国人口也有面临疫情传播的风险。随着安哥拉的外籍中国工人感染黄热病后中国首次报告黄热病病例，以及更广泛的西非地区正在爆发全面疫情，亚洲出现黄热病疫情的可能性有可能在朝觐期间及之后对沙特阿拉伯产生影响。鉴于全球都将重点放在了寨卡病毒上，黄热病日益增长的威胁不容忽视。因此，建议采取策略降低对沙特阿拉伯和全球人口的风险。
