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Polio fears in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, Health, 2/11/2005
A "case of polio reached Mecca in Saudi Arabia, Islam's holy city, just before two million Muslims made the annual pilgrimage there last month, and World Health Organization officials now say the disease could spread to other countries, carried by returning pilgrims," The New York Times reported yesterday.
The report said "A spokesman at the Saudi Embassy in Washington said his country had feared the arrival of polio this year and started vaccinating 800,000 people in September, hoping to head it off before the height of the hajj, or pilgrimage, in late January."
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(11/6/2001)
WHO regional committee for eastern Mediterranean
(10/1/2001)
AIDS in Saudi Arabia
(3/14/2001)
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