Mass gatherings medicine and global health security.

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Published in Lancet on July 07, 2012

Authors

Abdullah Al Rabeeah1, Ziad A Memish, Alimuddin Zumla, Shuja Shafi, Brian McCloskey, Ahmad Moolla, Maurizio Barbeschi, David Heymann, Richard Horton

Author Affiliations

1: Ministry of Health, Riyadh 11176, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

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