Mecca bound: The challenges ahead

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 202-210

  Memish, Ziad A ^a   Ahmed, Qanta A A ^a  

^a KING FAHAD NATIONAL GUARD HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; DIARRHEA; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; INFLUENZA; INJURY; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; RELIGION; REVIEW; SAUDI ARABIA; TOURISM; TRAVEL; TUBERCULOSIS; INFECTION CONTROL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; HUMANS; ISLAM; PUBLIC HEALTH; SAUDI ARABIA; TRAVEL;

EID: 0036638232     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/7060.2002.24557     Document Type: Review

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