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Half million pilgrims arrive in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia-Regional, Local, 12/26/2005
The Saudi authorities announced that more than half a million person arrived in the country to perform al-Haj rituals amid fears of the spread of the "Bird Flue" disease.
The Saudi health minister Hamad Bin Abdullah al-Mane said in a press conference in Riyadh on Sunday that the specialized health departments examined some 622,000 pilgrims arrived so far to the kingdom, and made sure that they are free from any infectious disease, noting that any pilgrim thta is infected will be forced to return back to his country.
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