New Concern on Polio Among Mecca Pilgrims
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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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By Beccy Tanner, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Feb. 14--About 1,100 families in Wichita are being encouraged to get blood tests for their children because their water may be contaminated with lead.
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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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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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The spread of polio to Guinea and Mali brings to 12 the number of previously polio-free African countries that have experienced an outbreak.
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Polio, which can paralyse small children, has become the latest threat to refugees already struggling with famine and disease in the camps of Darfur.
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India's efforts to eradicate polio nationwide have hit a hurdle in eastern Bihar state where poor, conservative communities are refusing to have their children immunized because they don't trust the medicine or its distributors.
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The number of polio cases in Afghanistan has quadrupled this year, almost entirely in southern provinces shaken by the country's worst fighting in almost five years, officials said Saturday.
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Health workers began immunising thousands of Afghan children against polio Wednesday, using a push for peace to access areas where unrest has prevented immunisation and led to new cases of the disease.
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Two Britons were among three people killed when a coach carrying Hajj pilgrims crashed in Saudi Arabia, said the Foreign Office.A further 34 people were injured, with 28 still in hospital - some in a serious ...Comment
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Polio has re-emerged in Guinea and Mali, countries that had previously freed themselves of the disease. The finding raises fears that a major polio epidemic could hit west and central Africa.
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Muslims are being warned they need to be careful with medication during Ramadan.
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Africa could soon face a major polio outbreak, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). For the first time in five years, Guinea and Mali have reported polio cases.
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Australia - The Federal Government will investigate a report that a contaminated polio vaccine, which has since been linked to cancers like mesothelioma, was knowingly released in the 1960s by the then government.
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India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, the  last three Asian countries where polio is endemic, are on track  to halt its spread by year-end after halving cases in 2004, the  World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday.
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Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia will   vaccinate nearly 3 million children against polio in a bid to   stamp out the paralyzing disease, which has re-emerged in the   Horn of Africa, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.
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MUZDALIFAH, Saudi Arabia  - More than 2 million  Muslim pilgrims began arriving at Muzdalifah on Wednesday  evening ahead of a stoning ritual in this year's haj, which has  been overshadowed by the Asian tsunami disaster.