Risk of dengue for tourists and teams during the World Cup 2014 in Brazil.

• Main Authors: Willem G van Panhuis (Author), Sangwon Hyun (Author), Kayleigh Blaney (Author), Ernesto T A Marques (Author), Giovanini E Coelho (Author), João Bosco Siqueira (Author), Ryan Tibshirani (Author), Jarbas B da Silva (Author), Roni Rosenfeld (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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This year, Brazil will host about 600,000 foreign visitors during the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The concern of possible dengue transmission during this event has been raised given the high transmission rates reported in the past by this country.We used dengue incidence rates reported by each host city du...