Needled by a Vaccine
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Indonesia awaits Saudi Arabia’s decision on the ‘forbidden’ meningitis vaccine.
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INDAH Handayasari had just returned from her umrah pilgrimage in early May when she heard about the Indonesian Ulamas Council (MUI) forbidding the vaccine because it contains pork enzymes. She took a shot of the vaccine a few days before her departure. Since June 2006, following a meningitis breakout in the country, the Saudi government requires every haj and umrah pilgrim, and foreign worker to have meningitis immunization prior to entering the
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