Saudi Arabia Health News

MECCA: A security official wearing a protective mask keeps an eye on cars at a checkpoint between Jeddah and Mecca before the annual Haj pilgrimage. Saudi authorities announced four pilgrims have died of the H1N1 swine flu virus in the...

RIYADH - A second wave of swine flu has begun in Saudi Arabia, the health ministry said on Friday, as the death toll from A(H1N1) neared 60 just weeks before the annual hajj brings two million pilgrims to the country....

Four pilgrimage peoples died on swine flu in Saudi Arabia Event the Government of Saudi Arabia give a strict warning to all pilgrimage peoples whose should get a flu vaccinations before entering to Jeddah, and Mecca, Arab Saudi, today about...

A teenager and three elderly people in Saudi Arabia for the hajj pilgrimage have died of the H1N1 flu virus, the Saudi Health Ministry said. The victims of the virus were a 17-year-old Nigerian female and a Sudanese man, an...

Forget stampedes, fires and terrorist attacks. The big fear this year concerning the Hajj, the annual millions-strong pilgrimage to Mecca, is swine flu. Swine flu has already killed four pilgrims this year, Saudi Arabia's health ministry announced Saturday, almost a...

The Saudi health minister says the kingdom will not ban anyone considered high risk for swine flu from performing the hajj pilgrimage this year. Health Minister Abdullah al-Rabeeah says it is the responsibility of individual countries to enforce recommendations that...

Thousands of potential Muslims may not make it to the annual pilgrimage owing to financial constraints, says group leader. Kenya Muslims have begun the journey to Mecca for the annual Hajj pilgrimage. Close to 200 pilgrims left for Mecca and...