BACKGROUND Hajj pilgrimage, in Saudi Arabia, is one of the world's largest religious mass gatherings. We have similar mass gathering scenarios in India such as the Amarnath Yatra and Kumbh. A unique combination of physical, physiological, and psychological factors makes this pilgrimage a very stressful milieu. We studied the emergence of psychopathology and its determinants, in this adverse env...

The ‘Journey to the West’, also translated as the’ Pilgrimage is one of masterpieces ancient Chinese literature. Published anonymously by putative author Wu Cheng'en in late 16th century, story traces broad outline journey taken monk Tripitaka year 629 a.D. India acquire Buddhist scriptures, and it result reworking antecedent works, such ‘Poetic notes on pilgrimage Great Tang Sutras’ ‘‹Journey ...

A 59-year-old post-menopausal lady who had returned from a pilgrimage to Mecca about a month earlier presented with a three days' history of profuse vaginal discharge. Neissseria meningitidis was isolated from high vaginal swab specimens taken from her on 2 occasions, five days apart. Her symptoms disappeared without treatment after two weeks. We conclude that although the organism may have bee...