Editorial: Digesting the Milan Expo, 2015

2015 Milan Declaration: A Call to Action on Obesity - an EASO Position Statement on the Occasion of the 2015 EXPO

a European Association for the Study of Obesity, London , UK; b Department of Endocrinology & Nutrition, Clínica Universidad de Navarra, University of Navarra, IdiSNA, CIBEROBN, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Pamplona , Spain; c Società Italiana dell’Obesità", Rome , Italy; d Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’ and Obesity Center, University Hospital Policlinico Tor...

Surveillance of Mosquitoes and Selected Arthropod-Borne Viruses in the Context of Milan EXPO 2015

From 1 May 2015 to 31 October 2015 over 20 million visitors from all over the world visited the Universal Exhibition (EXPO) hosted by Milan (Lombardy region, Italy), raising concerns about the possible introduction of mosquito-borne diseases from endemic countries. The entomological surveillance protocol performed in Lombardy over the last three years was implemented in the EXPO area and in the...

Event-Based Surveillance During EXPO Milan 2015: Rationale, Tools, Procedures, and Initial Results

More than 21 million participants attended EXPO Milan from May to October 2015, making it one of the largest protracted mass gathering events in Europe. Given the expected national and international population movement and health security issues associated with this event, Italy fully implemented, for the first time, an event-based surveillance (EBS) system focusing on naturally occurring infec...

EXPOsure: Milan, May 1st- October 31st 2015

The city of Milan is experiencing the great event of EXPO 2015 and heavy construction has been ongoing since 2012 over an area of more than 1 million meters squared in the north-west suburban area of the city. We compared the number of hospital admissions for upper and lower respiratory tract infections (URTI and LRTI) and acute asthma, in infants and children aged between 0 and 13 years from 2...

Editorial: NAR Awards 2015