Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Why The New Coronavirus Unnerves Public Health: Remembering SARS | Wired Science | Wired.com

Why The New Coronavirus Unnerves Public Health: Remembering SARS | Wired Science | Wired.com
The concern underlying these developments is that exposure to the new virus seems to have occurred only or primarily in Saudi Arabia, which houses Mecca, the physical heart of Islam — and which, next month, will be the center of the worldwide annual pilgrimage known as the Hajj. The Hajj brings more than 2 million people to the country, in extraordinarily crowded conditions, and when those pilgrims leave, they disperse all over the world.

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