From the madding crowd to mass gatherings-religion, sport, culture and public health

Human behavior has long engaged in collective behavior assembling in crowds. The Christian pilgrimage to the Holy Land which has been recorded since the 4th century while the Hajj, Islam's great pilgrimage, has existed for fourteen centuries of which a body of literature devoted to the travelogues of the Hajj has existed for over ten centuries. Football, a sport played worldwide by more than 1.5 million teams and in 300,000 clubs. Most people however play outside of the officially organized sphere.
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Source Type: research