Risk of Infectious Disease Outbreaks by Imported Cases with Application to the European Football Championship 2012
Joint Authors
Kevei, Péter
Nishiura, Hiroshi
Dénes, Attila
Röst, Gergely
Source
International Journal of Stochastic Analysis
Issue
Vol. 2013, Issue 2013 (31 Dec. 2013), pp.1-9, 9 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2013-03-19
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
9
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control called the attention in March 2012 to the risk of measles in Ukraine among visitors to the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship.
Large populations of supporters travelled to various locations in Poland and Ukraine, depending on the schedule of Euro 2012 and the outcome of the games, possibly carrying the disease from one location to another.
In the present study, we propose a novel two-phase multitype branching process model with immigration to describe the risk of a major epidemic in connection with large-scale sports-related mass gathering events.
By analytic means, we calculate the expected number and the variance of imported cases and the probability of a major epidemic caused by the imported cases in their home country.
Applying our model to the case study of Euro 2012 we demonstrate that the results of the football games can be highly influential to the risk of measles outbreaks in the home countries of supporters.
To prevent imported epidemics, it should be emphasized that vaccinating travellers would most efficiently reduce the risk of epidemic, while requiring the minimum doses of vaccines as compared to other vaccination strategies.
Our theoretical framework can be applied to other future sport tournaments too.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Dénes, Attila& Kevei, Péter& Nishiura, Hiroshi& Röst, Gergely. 2013. Risk of Infectious Disease Outbreaks by Imported Cases with Application to the European Football Championship 2012. International Journal of Stochastic Analysis،Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-482110
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Dénes, Attila…[et al.]. Risk of Infectious Disease Outbreaks by Imported Cases with Application to the European Football Championship 2012. International Journal of Stochastic Analysis No. 2013 (2013), pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-482110
American Medical Association (AMA)
Dénes, Attila& Kevei, Péter& Nishiura, Hiroshi& Röst, Gergely. Risk of Infectious Disease Outbreaks by Imported Cases with Application to the European Football Championship 2012. International Journal of Stochastic Analysis. 2013. Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-482110
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-482110