{"id":84721,"date":"2019-04-22T17:10:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T11:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=3979"},"modified":"2019-04-22T17:10:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T11:40:23","slug":"health-ministry-has-no-vaccines-for-haj-pilgrims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/health-ministry-has-no-vaccines-for-haj-pilgrims\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Ministry has no vaccines for Haj pilgrims"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Union Health Ministry is struggling with the\npaucity of meningitis vaccines for Haj pilgrims. This is because the only firm\nmanufacturing them was asked to stop production in 2018 after type-2 polio\nvirus contamination was detected in its oral polio vaccines.<\/li><li>Meningitis is an inflammation\/swelling of the\nprotective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord. A bacterial or viral\ninfection of the fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord usually causes the\nswelling. It is spread through respiratory and throat secretions (saliva or\nspit). Vaccines can prevent some forms of meningitis<\/li><li>People travelling to Saudi Arabia for Hajj or\nUmra are required to submit a certificate of vaccination with the quadrivalent\n(ACYW 135) vaccine against meningitis. They have to prove that the vaccine was\nadministered no more than 3 years ago and no less than 10 days before arrival\nin the country.<\/li><li>The Hajj is an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca,\nSaudi Arabia. It is a mandatory religious duty for Muslims that must be carried\nout at least once in their lifetime by all adult Muslims who are physically and\nfinancially capable of undertaking the pilgrimage. Hajj has specific dates\naccording to the Islamic lunar calendar.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union Health Ministry is struggling with the paucity of meningitis vaccines for Haj pilgrims. This is because the only firm manufacturing them was asked to stop production in 2018 after type-2 polio virus contamination was detected in its oral polio vaccines. Meningitis is an inflammation\/swelling of the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/health-ministry-has-no-vaccines-for-haj-pilgrims\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Health Ministry has no vaccines for Haj pilgrims<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[956],"tags":[1789,1790],"class_list":["post-84721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schemes-and-programs","tag-hajj","tag-meningitis","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704726063},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}