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| Title |
Infectious diseases epidemic threats and mass gatherings: refocusing global attention on the continuing spread of the Middle East Respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)
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| Published in |
BMC Medicine, September 2016
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12916-016-0686-3 |
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| Authors |
Alimuddin Zumla, Abdulaziz N. Alagaili, Matthew Cotten, Esam I. Azhar |
| Abstract |
Media and World Health Organization (WHO) attention on Zika virus transmission at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games and the 2015 Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa diverted the attention of global public health authorities from other lethal infectious diseases with epidemic potential. Mass gatherings such as the annual Hajj pilgrimage hosted by Kingdom of Saudi Arabia attract huge crowds from all continents, creating high-risk conditions for the rapid global spread of infectious diseases. The highly lethal Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) remains in the WHO list of top emerging diseases likely to cause major epidemics. The 2015 MERS-CoV outbreak in South Korea, in which 184 MERS cases including 33 deaths occurred in 2 months, that was imported from the Middle East by a South Korean businessman was a wake-up call for the global community to refocus attention on MERS-CoV and other emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases with epidemic potential. The international donor community and Middle Eastern countries should make available resources for, and make a serious commitment to, taking forward a "One Health" global network for proactive surveillance, rapid detection, and prevention of MERS-CoV and other epidemic infectious diseases threats. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 8 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Saudi Arabia | 2 | 25% |
| United States | 2 | 25% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 25% |
| Colombia | 1 | 13% |
| Unknown | 1 | 13% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 6 | 75% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 25% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 135 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 134 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 26 | 19% |
| Researcher | 20 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 19 | 14% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 13 | 10% |
| Other | 7 | 5% |
| Other | 23 | 17% |
| Unknown | 27 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 27 | 20% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 17 | 13% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 12 | 9% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 8 | 6% |
| Computer Science | 7 | 5% |
| Other | 32 | 24% |
| Unknown | 32 | 24% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 June 2022.
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#4,794,618
of 25,386,440 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#2,355
of 3,997 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#74,723
of 344,111 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#33
of 50 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,386,440 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 81st percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,997 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 45.5. This one is in the 40th percentile – i.e., 40% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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