{"id":75305,"date":"2025-05-17T14:28:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T14:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=75305"},"modified":"2025-05-17T14:28:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T14:28:24","slug":"spike-in-saudi-mers-cases-sparks-outbreak-fears-ahead-of-hajj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/05\/17\/spike-in-saudi-mers-cases-sparks-outbreak-fears-ahead-of-hajj\/","title":{"rendered":"Spike in Saudi Mers cases sparks outbreak fears ahead of Hajj"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1EULVN.img?w=534&amp;h=335&amp;m=6\" alt=\"The Hajj religious festival sees more than three million people confined to a 12-square kilometre area - FADEL SENNA\/AFP via Getty Images\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A spike in Mers cases in Saudi Arabia has ignited fears of an outbreak during Hajj, the Muslim festival that sees over three million people congregate in Mecca in early June.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/spike-in-saudi-mers-cases-sparks-outbreak-fears-ahead-of-hajj\/ar-AA1EUYdj?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=41fd60f84c884081bbadf4e9236530ab&amp;ei=29\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A spike in Mers cases in Saudi Arabia has ignited fears of an outbreak during Hajj, the Muslim festival that sees over&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-75305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Pilgrims-Hajj.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75306,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75305\/revisions\/75306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}