The Hajj Health Requirements: time for a serious review?

The Hajj Health Requirements: time for a serious review?

More than 2 million Muslim pilgrims from around 180 countries congregate annually in Saudi Arabia for the Hajj religious mass gathering. This event can potentially affect global health security because of the possibility that infectious agents will spread beyond Saudi Arabia via returning pilgrims....

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Veröffentlicht in:The Lancet (British edition) 2016-02, Vol.387 (10021), p.845-846
Hauptverfasser: Yezli, Saber, Alotaibi, Badriah M, Saeed, Abdulaziz A Bin
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Global health
Health Status
Infectious diseases
Internal Medicine
Islam
Morbidity
Mortality
Muslims
Pilgrimages
Saudi Arabia
Travel
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Zusammenfassung:More than 2 million Muslim pilgrims from around 180 countries congregate annually in Saudi Arabia for the Hajj religious mass gathering. This event can potentially affect global health security because of the possibility that infectious agents will spread beyond Saudi Arabia via returning pilgrims. The Hajj Health Requirements are a set of health conditions for individuals intending to do the Hajj pilgrimage aimed at preventing communicable diseases.
ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00505-5