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This is the age of globalization and here nothing can be restricted to a particular country. Now, ahead of the World Cup Cricket 2007, this globalize world is getting prepared to celebrate the biggest occasion of world cricket. People from different countries will meet at the host Caribbean region and will share their culture, views, passion etc, to each other. By the way, they are going to share their diseases too.

 Eurosurveillance, a medical unit, has predicted that some viruses of malaria, dengue fever and chikungunya can be spread away in the entire Caribbean region as almost 70 thousand visitors are expected to come to different Caribbean countries during the world cup. The visitors are likely to carry the viruses from their own country.

Bloomberg.com reported:

Doctors are strengthening surveillance for diseases such as malaria, dengue fever and chikungunya across nine Caribbean countries that are expected to draw about 70,000 visitors from five continents for cricket's largest event, according to a report in the March 8 Eurosurveillance Weekly.

``Some of the visitors are coming from countries where infectious diseases are either endemic or capable of creating an epidemic,'' said the editorial team at Eurosurveillance. ``There is a risk of visitors importing diseases into the countries hosting the event or into nearby tourist destinations.''

Visitors who import illnesses may also be improperly diagnosed and managed by doctors unfamiliar with their symptoms, the authors wrote in the online journal of peer-reviewed information on communicable diseases.

The International and Tropical Department at France's Health Surveillance Institute and the Inter-Regional Epidemiology Unit for Antilles-Guyana will provide increased disease surveillance until the April 28 final.

This is a serious issue and the Caribbean countries should not neglect this problem. Dengue has killed a lot of people in South Asia in the last one year. If mosquito born diseases like Dengue spread in the Caribbean after World Cup finishes then it may become a nightmare for the countries of this region.