Seattle hospitals brace for World Cup crowds with infectious-disease preparedness
TL;DR
As FIFA World Cup crowds descend on Seattle, local health officials say hospitals have planned for more than a year to handle infectious-disease threats, monitoring Ebola and other risks from participating regions, coordinating with the CDC and Northwest Healthcare Response Network, and standing up pathogen units to manage mass gatherings while stressing that overall risk to the public remains low.
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- ‘Complicated’ circumstances test public health playbook for World Cup preparations CNN
- Poop patrol: Sewage testing may help prevent disease at World Cup Dallas News
- How NY and NJ are preparing for all the World Cup worst-case scenarios Gothamist
- Opinion | FIFA, We Have a Problem MedPage Today
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