FIFA World Cup 2026
Infectious Disease Risk · Working Group Tools
To help public-health agencies focus on the infectious diseases that actually pose increased risk around the 2026 FIFA World Cup, a multi-institutional team across CDC/CFA InsightNet centers evaluated pathogen-specific risk along three dimensions — importation, outbreak potential, and impact.
Pathogen evaluation followed a systematic screening protocol, with disease surveillance, travel data, and pathogen-specific epidemiology collected as needed to inform inclusion in the priority pathogen list. The tools below are the empirical outputs of that effort.
They are intended for planning and situational awareness around the tournament. They do not replace local surveillance, predict outbreaks, or substitute for clinical or epidemiological judgment.
For more about our process and full technical details see our preprint
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Pathogen Risk Screening →
Three-dimensional pathogen-specific risk evaluation — importation, outbreak potential, and impact — under a common screening protocol used to identify the priority pathogen list.
Importation Risk Dashboard →
Per-pathogen tables of expected case importations by source country and US host city, under baseline and three WC-concentrated travel scenarios. Country-level maps and host-city routing.