<p>New York City is bracing for impact as more than a million foreign soccer fans are about to descend on the nation for the upcoming FIFA World Cup — and could bring hundreds of infectious diseases with them.</p>
<p>Medical professionals and infectious disease experts have been preparing for the major event for weeks, knowing that the large numbers of fans in close proximity will create a perfect breeding ground for contagion — and some of those fans could be carrying diseases that are not common in the United States.</p>
<p>A <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/05/02/world-news/nyc-nj-hospitals-have-been-gearing-up-for-fifa-games-scariest-health-problems/">report</a> from The New York Post stated that the medical community was preparing for exposure to everything from the common cold and a resurgence of COVID-19 to Ebola. The list includes, but is not limited to, &#8220;viral hemorrhagic fevers, RSV, tuberculosis, measles, varicella, hepatitis A, typhoid, malaria, SARS, hantavirus and even &#8216;high consequence&#8217; diseases with high mortality rates, like cholera and Ebola.&#8221;</p>
<p>Bellevue&#8217;s critical care chief Dr. Vikramjit Mukherjee told Healthbeat New York that the city was basically planning for something akin to a mass immigration due to the number of foreign nationals who would be traveling to and through the city.</p>
<p>&#8220;The whole health care system in New York City will be on the alert for ALL of these events,&#8221; he explained, noting that officials also had to be prepared for intentional disruptions such as shootings or other attacks. &#8220;We’re looking at it like a huge migration event.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Because of what we’ve seen in the last few years — Ebola, Covid, and mpox — we feel that we will be the ones who will be affected first for the next outbreak, and therefore have an additional responsibility of keeping prepared,&#8221; Mukherjee added.</p>
<p>One recent training exercise saw some 500 medical professionals from New York and New Jersey acting out a potential emergency transport — from nearby FIFA host city Toronto to New York City — using a mobile bio-containment unit.</p>
<p>&#8220;That was the biggest drill we’ve done, because that involved local, state, federal, and international partners,” Bellevue spokesman Noel Alicea explained.</p>
<p>The White House has also created a FIFA task force — headed by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani&#8217;s son Andrew Giuliani — promising &#8220;the federal government’s<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/fifa-2026-task-force/"> </a>extensive efforts to ensure that the largest World Cup in history will also be the safest.&#8221;</p>
<p>Training and preparation among medical professionals for major events such as the FIFA World Cup often takes months, if not years.</p>

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