MINOR HOPI FESTIVALS

Hopi Hoekstra

You are a Curator of Mammals, what does a Mammal Curator do? I head the mammal collection at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ). The collection comprises specimens collected as early as the 1830s, the red squirrel series collected by Louis Agassiz (one of Darwin’s biggest foes), and hundreds of type specimens, including that of Gorilla gorilla. I have a terrific staff that looks afte...

Religious Festivals and Influenza

Objectives Influenza outbreaks have been widely studied. However, the patterns between influenza and religious festivals remained unexplored. This study examined the patterns of influenza and Hanukkah in Israel, and that of influenza and Hajj in Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Oman and Qatar. Method Influenza surveillance data of these seven countries from 2009 to 2017 were downloaded from the Fl...

The role of science festivals.

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Outbreaks associated to large open air festivals, including music festivals, 1980 to 2012.

In the minds of many, large scale open air festivals have become associated with spring and summer, attracting many people, and in the case of music festivals, thousands of music fans. These festivals share the usual health risks associated with large mass gatherings, including transmission of communicable diseases and risk of outbreaks. Large scale open air festivals have however specific char...

Health of the Navajo-Hopi Indians.