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cord-259111-hffy6xtm	Memish, Ziad A.	The Hajj in The Time of an Ebola outbreak in West Africa	2014-10-31		.txt	text/plain	1537	68	51	This issue of Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease has a number of papers pertinent to infectious disease risks for pilgrims attending Hajj, one of the largest annual recurring mass gathering events that takes place in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The number of Muslims and the average number of pilgrims from the four countries in West Africa involved in the current Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak are shown in Table 1 . And long before the WHO announcement about PHEIC, the Saudi MOH after careful review by its national infectious diseases committee had asked in April 2014 that the respective authorities to suspend issuing the Hajj and Umrah's visas for the people of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia [2, 7] . Based on risk assessment in 2012, the Saudi Ministry of Health excluded pilgrims from Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo due to the occurrence of an Ebola outbreak at that time [8] .	./cache/cord-259111-hffy6xtm.txt	./txt/cord-259111-hffy6xtm.txt