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Saudi Arabia suspends Hajj visas for DR Congo over Ebola
Aljizzera ^
Posted on 07/26/2019 1:38:24 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The decision, announced in a note issued on Wednesday by the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, cited last week's move by the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare the Ebola outbreak in DRC's eastern North Kivu and Ituri provinces a public health emergency of international concern.
Riyadh's move came despite the WHO saying at the time of its international emergency declaration that no country should close its borders or place any restrictions on travel or trade because of Ebola and urging governments elsewhere in Africa and around the world not to "panic" in response to the decision.
The epidemic has killed more than 1,700 people - more than two-thirds of those who contracted it - since it emerged last August, according to the DRC's health ministry. It is the second-worst outbreak of its kind on record.
(Excerpt) Read more at aljazeera.com ...
TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: bordersecurity; ebola; hadj; mecca; muslimworld
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posted on
07/26/2019 1:38:24 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Arabs be racis.
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posted on
07/26/2019 1:40:55 PM PDT
by
Cowboy Bob
("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
To: BenLurkin
You mean Allah can’t fix it?..............
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posted on
07/26/2019 1:46:06 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
To: BenLurkin
Imagine the world wide disaster if Ebola got loose in the Haj...
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posted on
07/26/2019 1:46:59 PM PDT
by
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
To: BenLurkin
To: American in Israel
What a wonderful dream.......
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posted on
07/26/2019 2:00:20 PM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: BenLurkin
See also keeping the camels out of Mecca. What camels are to Islam?
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posted on
07/26/2019 2:01:48 PM PDT
by
Scram1
To: BenLurkin
Good call. A city of 3 million, mostly tourists, is no place for someone with an emerging case of Ebola.
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posted on
07/26/2019 2:05:01 PM PDT
by
Pollster1
("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
07/26/2019 2:27:46 PM PDT
by
Williams
(Stop Tolerating The Intolerant.)
To: Fiddlstix
They travel from all around the world to visit the Hajj once in their lives. If Ebola got loose there it would spread to every major city in the world, in one week.
The dream would be a nightmare.
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posted on
07/26/2019 2:34:02 PM PDT
by
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
To: American in Israel
You're right. I hadn't considered that.
First post was knee jerk...
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posted on
07/26/2019 2:40:24 PM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: BenLurkin
WHO and CDC are ridiculous.
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posted on
07/26/2019 5:40:52 PM PDT
by
bgill
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