Meningococcal disease during the Hajj and Umrah mass gatherings

The Hajj and Umrah religious mass gatherings hosted by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia can facilitate the transmission of infectious diseases.The pilgrimages have been associated with a number of local and international outbreaks of meningococcal disease.These include serogroup A disease outbreaks in 1987 and throughout the 1990s and two international

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SOUTH TIBET (TAWANG) IN SINO-INDIAN RELATIONS

The article is devoted to the study of the special situation concerning Tawang region (is a part of the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, otherwise - Southern Tibet) in the Sino-Indian relations.In addition to its strategic positioning, and also because of demand of the PRC leadership to return China this region of the Tibet (TAR), Tawang gets the

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