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Editorial

. 2014 Sep-Oct;12(5):415-7.

doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2014.09.003. Epub 2014 Sep 16.

The Hajj in the time of an Ebola outbreak in West Africa

Ziad A Memish¹, Jaffar A Al-Tawfiq²

Affiliations

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¹ Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Electronic address: zmemish@yahoo.com.
² Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.

PMID: 25257580
PMCID: PMC7128612
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2014.09.003

Editorial

The Hajj in the time of an Ebola outbreak in West Africa

Ziad A Memish et al. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2014 Sep-Oct.

. 2014 Sep-Oct;12(5):415-7.

doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2014.09.003. Epub 2014 Sep 16.

Authors

Ziad A Memish¹, Jaffar A Al-Tawfiq²

Affiliations

¹ Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Electronic address: zmemish@yahoo.com.
² Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.

PMID: 25257580
PMCID: PMC7128612
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2014.09.003

No abstract available

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Number of probable, suspect and confirmed cases of Ebola and death (According to WHO: http://www.who.int/csr/don/2014_08_28_ebola/en/).

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