Rapid Risk Assessment: Potential public health risks related to communicable diseases at the WorldPride festival in Madrid, 23 June–2 July 2017

Risk assessment
Cite:

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Rapid Risk Assessment, Potential public health risks related to communicable diseases at the WorldPride festival in Madrid, 23 June–2 July 2017, 5 May2017. Stockholm: ECDC; 2017.

WorldPride Madrid 2017 is a festival that promotes lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues at an international level and will take place in Madrid between 23 June and 2 July 2017. This document assesses the risk of outbreaks and transmission of communicable diseases during the festival period. For respiratory and vector-borne diseases, the risk is considered low, for food and waterborne diseases the risk is low to moderate, for vaccine-preventable diseases, it is moderate and for sexually transmitted infections, the risk is moderate to high.