Introduction The Hajj is considered to be the largest mass gathering to date, attracting an estimated 2.5 million Muslims from more than 160 countries annually (1). The H1N1 Influenza A pandemic of 2009 generated a global wave of concern among public health departments that resulted in the institution of preventive measures to limit transmission of the disease. Meanwhile, the pandemic amplified...

Objectives Influenza outbreaks have been widely studied. However, the patterns between influenza and religious festivals remained unexplored. This study examined the patterns of influenza and Hanukkah in Israel, and that of influenza and Hajj in Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Oman and Qatar. Method Influenza surveillance data of these seven countries from 2009 to 2017 were downloaded from the Fl...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether or not Neisseria meningitidis was present in the throat of Kuwaiti pilgrims after returning from the Hajj. METHOD Throat swabs were taken from 177 participants 1 week after returning from the Hajj. The participants were asked about: associated medical conditions, meningococcal vaccination status and the intake of ciprofloxacin before leaving Mecca for Kuwait. ...

The Islamic Hajj to Makkah (Mecca) has been associated with outbreaks of invasive meningococcal disease and the global spread of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W-135. For Hajj pilgrims the quadrivalent vaccination against serogroups A, C, W-135 and Y is a mandatory requirement. Novel conjugate vaccines may provide benefits for the community by reduction of carriage. With the introduction of t...

This article examines how Volga-Ural Muslims narrated their encounters with the sacred spaces visited during hajj. It nine accounts hajj composed from 1690s to 1940s, consider changes in international politics, Russia’s domestic and culture of Islamic learning within VolgaUral Muslim community led writers revise narratives why Mecca were sacred, best experience power these spaces, fit into loca...

This paper advances video analytics with a focus on crowd analysis for Hajj and Umrah pilgrimages. In recent years, there has been an increased interest in the advancement of visible surveillance to improve safety security pilgrims during their stay Makkah. It is mainly because entirely special event that involve hundreds thousands people being clustered small area. proposed convolutional neura...

We report here the main characteristics of 'Pseudomonas saudiphocaensis' strain 20_BNT (CSUR P1224), a new species of the Pseudomonas genus that was isolated from currency notes collected during the Hajj pilgrimage in 2012 at Makkah, Saudi Arabia.

This study aims to analyze of Hajj registration trough the Smart Application at office Ministry Religion Bekasi City. research methos used descriptive qualitative. is a method that produces data based on idea realy not an objective formation, but constructed through process interaction in community and cultural groups. The smart hajj application City has been really effective. obstacle there ar...