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Influenza and RSV among returning travellers

H. Rashid

Academic Unit of Child Health, Barts and the London Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, Abernethy Building, 2 Newark Street, London E1 2AT, UK., h.rashid{at}qmul.ac.uk

S. Shafi

Health Protection Agency, London, UK

E. Haworth

Health Protection Agency South East, UK

H. El Bashir

Academic Unit of Child Health, Barts and the London Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, Abernethy Building, 2 Newark Street, London E1 2AT, UK.

R. Booy

Academic Unit of Child Health, Barts and the London Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, Abernethy Building, 2 Newark Street, London E1 2AT, UK., National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Disease, The Children's Hospital at Westmead and The University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Annually about 45,000 European Muslims attend the Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. One in seven pilgrims with respiratory symptoms suffers from proven influenza and upwards of one in 25 from respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) (Rashid et al, 2008). To investigate whether travellers bring these infections back home we conducted a pilot survey on pilgrims with flulike illness who returned home after the Hajj 2005 by setting up clinics at two UK mosques. The East London and the Aylesbury mosques situated in London and in Buckinghamshire were chosen to represent dense and moderately dense Muslim populations respectively.

Key Words: Influenza • respiratory syncytial virus • RSV • hajj • Muslims

British Journal of Infection Control, Vol. 9, No. 4, 17-18 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1469044607089642
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