Mecca Pilgrims May Be Spreading Polio, Experts Say
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Polio apparently reached Mecca, Islam's holy city, just before last month's annual pilgrimage by two million Muslims.
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Health workers met scattered refusals from parents Monday as medical teams deployed door-to-door in this largely Muslim Nigerian state, rushing to inoculate 3.8 children against polio after Muslim leaders lifted their boycott of the vaccine.
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ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia  - Muslim pilgrims poured onto the plain of Arafat east of Mecca on Tuesday as the sun rose over the rocky hills for the day marking the climax of the annual haj pilgrimage.
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ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia  - Muslim pilgrims spent the day in prayer on the plain of Arafat near Mecca on Tuesday, marking the climax of this season's haj pilgrimage where Iranian pilgrims managed to protest against America.
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Those caring for him at a Hindu monastery in Wales say he symbolizes the sanctity of all life and is an inspiration to temple-goers. Officials say he could have a contagious disease and should be put down.
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ABUJA, Nigeria  - The number of new polio cases in Nigeria jumped by 36 percent to 1,111 last year but sustained immunization should help cut incidence of the disease in 2007, a World Health Organization official said on Monday.
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Pakistan and Afghanistan are to set  up five checkposts on their common border to screen children  for polio and give them vaccine drops in the hope of  eliminating one of the world's last reservoirs of the disease.
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Pilgrims should stock up on sunblock and shoes before starting the five-day haj pilgrimage this month, a British Muslim doctor said on Friday.
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Health authorities in north India struggling with an outbreak of polio are asking Muslim leaders to support immunization drives, officials said Wednesday.
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Uganda will next month launch a nationwide drive to vaccinate nearly three million children against polio in a bid to prevent a feared outbreak in Sudan from spreading, the health ministry said.
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A major polio epidemic in West and  Central Africa is inevitable in coming months, but the disease  could be eradicated worldwide next year by mass immunizations,  the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
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The crippling Polio disease has spread to at least one dozen countries in West and Central Africa and is threatening to become an epidemic, the United Nations has said.
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A temporary Wi-Fi mesh netowrk is enabling pilgrims to Mecca to stay in touch.
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The number of new polio cases in  Nigeria jumped by 36 percent to 1,111 last year but sustained  immunization should help cut incidence of the disease in 2007,  a World Health Organization official said on Monday.
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A week-long effort to immunise 300 million children in Africa and Asia against polio starts on Friday.
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The U.N. health agency plans to vaccinate nearly 3 million children in the Horn of Africa this year against polio, a crippling disease that experts fear could spread rapidly along the region's volatile and porous borders.
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ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia  - Tens of thousands of Muslim pilgrims reached the plain of Arafat east of Mecca on Monday, the vanguard of a throng expected to peak at more than 2 million people by Tuesday, the climax of the haj pilgrimage.