Influenza among U.K. pilgrims to Hajj, 2003.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)

From: Emerging Infectious Diseases | Date: October 1, 2004| Author: Booy, Robert; El Bashir, Haitham; Haworth, Elizabeth; Shafi, Shuja; Zambon, Maria; Zuckerman, Jane | Copyright information

To the Editor: Each year, approximately 2 million Muslims travel from all over the world to participate in hajj. Approximately 22,000 pilgrims travel from the United Kingdom to Makkah, Saudi Arabia; of those, approximately 1,000 person reside in the east end of London. In the past, infectious diseases research conducted during these pilgrimages focused on meningococcal disease because of outbreaks associated with the hajj. Since 2000, the dates of the hajj have been moved back into...

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