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  • A nurse prepares a H1N1 swine flu vaccination at the University College London Hospital in London
    A nurse prepares a H1N1 swine flu vaccination at the University ...
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  • A patient is given a H1N1 swine flu vaccination at the University College London hospital, in London
    A patient is given a H1N1 swine flu vaccination at the University ...
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  • A patient is given a H1N1 swine flu vaccination at the University College London hospital
    A patient is given a H1N1 swine flu vaccination at the University ...
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  • Doctor Farrar receives a H1N1 swine flu vaccination at the University College London hospital
    Doctor Farrar receives a H1N1 swine flu vaccination at the University ...
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  • People wait in line to receive a swine flu vaccination at a public clinic in Milwaukee
    People wait in line to receive a swine flu vaccination at a public ...
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  • Swine flu vaccinations are administered at a public clinic in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    Swine flu vaccinations are administered at a public clinic in ...
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  • Six-year-old Genevieve DiGiovanni, held by her mother Stephanie, reacts as she receives a swine flu vaccination at a public clinic in Milwaukee
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  • Bottles of Pandemrix a vaccine against H1N1 influenza, so-called swine flu are pictured at UKE clinic in Hamburg
    Bottles of Pandemrix a vaccine against H1N1 influenza, so-called swine ...
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A nurse prepares a H1N1 swine flu vaccination at the University ...
For most of us this means years of saving, planning, delaying and re-planning a trip to Mecca for more than a month. The large amount of preparations required means a large portion of pilgrims are over 50 by the time they have saved up the US$3,500 required, and they must also be ready to undergo the rituals...
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  • News Source: The Independent | 25 days ago
    The Saudi government has asked Britain whether the vaccine will be available to Muslims two weeks prior to the Hajj. If so, British pilgrims may require proof of vaccination from British authorities in order to receive a visa. The Health Protection...
  • News Source: The Jakarta Post | 25 days ago
    For most of us this means years of saving, planning, delaying and re-planning a trip to Mecca for more than a month. The large amount of preparations required means a large portion of pilgrims are over 50 by the time they have saved up the US$3,500...
  • News Source: Star Tribune | 25 days ago
    A new treatment for H1N1 flu may already be on pharmacy shelves -- cholesterol-lowering statin drugs like Lipitor and Zocor. A large study -- involving 2,800 people in 2007-2008 -- found that people who were taking these drugs when they caught...
  • News Source: The New York Times | 25 days ago
    The Saudi authorities, fearing that the hajj could turn their holy city into a petri dish for viral mutations and a hub for spreading a new pandemic wave around the world, are working hard to head that off. They have asked some worshipers, including...
  • News Source: The Mercury News | 25 days ago
    Published today in the well-respected journal Science, the recommendation is that pregnant women, those with chronic illness, children under 12 and anyone older than 65 this year forgo from the hajj, which all Muslims are told to do at least once in...
  • News Source: Reuters | 25 days ago
    Waves of H1N1 swine flu spread by some three million pilgrims traveling to and from Mecca for next month's haj threaten to pile pressure on healthcare systems around the world, disease experts said on Thursday. "No region can be considered free from...
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  • Blog Source: antiquitopia.blogspot.com
    While religious pilgrimages feed the souls of those who attend, they often endanger the bodies. There have been several outbreaks of meningitis in Mecca since 1987, and in 2004, Muslim pilgrims spread polio from northern Nigeria across ... More than
  • Blog Source: blogs.reuters.com
    Tunisia has barred its citizens from making the annual pilgrimage to Mecca for the first time because of a lack of swine flu vaccines, the government said earlier this month. – The Ministry of Religious Affairs said a batch of H1N1 flu ...
  • Blog Source: peoplescontent.com
    It is an obligation for every Muslim, if they can afford it, to perform Hajj at least once in her or his life. Every year, millions of Muslims from around the world take the trip to Mecca. This is a potential for the H1N1 (Swine Flu) to spread from
  • Blog Source: www.a1saudiarabia.com
    Saudi Arabia has made it compulsory for all Haj pilgrims from abroad to present an official certificate proving they have been vaccinated against swine flu,
  • Blog Source: blog.taragana.com
    ukDevon health staff get swine flu jabExpre.. http://bit.ly/qyLP0; rssny Three swine flu deaths take India's toll to 447; polymath22 Ron Paul on Obama's H1N1 Swine Flu National Emergency Decisi; shakeel Russia reports first swine flu ...
  • Blog Source: xrdarabia.org
    It appears that the Saudi government has not yet made up its mind whether pilgrims taking part in this year's Haj will be required to have had swine flu. ... On some days, there are two times when we do not pray at funerals at Mecca Mosque so where
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