World Cup health planning turns to measles, heat and crowd-spread infections

Published by Albis · 13 Jun 2026

Health officials and doctors are preparing for a World Cup shaped not only by matches, but by weeks of dense travel, fan zones, heat exposure and infectious-disease risk across host cities

• • Mega-event health readiness offers an early test of public-health systems under extreme travel concentration.
• • Public-health transmission chain.
• • The city is preparing for more than soccer injuries.
• • The fan festival at Lemon Hill is scheduled to run for more than a month, during a period when the city expects more than 1.5 million visitors.