Volume 9, Number 6, June 2003

Serogroup W-135 Meningococcal Disease during the Hajj, 2000

Jairam R. Lingappa,* Abdullah M. Al-Rabeah,† Rana Hajjeh,* Tajammal Mustafa,† Adel Fatani,† Tami Al-Bassam,† Amira Badukhan,† Abdulhafiz Turkistani,† Nassen Al-Hamdan,† Mohamed Al-Jeffri,† Yaqoub Al Mazrou,† Bradley A. Perkins,* Tanja Popovic,* Leonard W. Mayer,* and Nancy E. Rosenstein*
*Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; and HSaudi Arabian Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Figure 2. Meningococcal disease during the 2000 Hajj: Jeddah, Mecca, and Medina, January 24–June 5, 2000. The number of cases of serogroup-specific meningococcal disease is shown by date. The duration of the 2000 Hajj is indicated.

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