Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca Unleashes New Virus w/ 65% Fatality Rate

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Front Page Magazine:

It’s almost like God is not terribly fond of the Haj. SARS has an 8 percent fatality rate. This new Mecca virus has a 65 percent fatality rate.

 

If I were a Muslim pondering going into the suicide bomber business in the hopes of an afterlife full of virgins and fresh dates, this is the sort of thing that might make me reconsider a career in air conditioner repair instead.

 

Saudi Arabia is the centre of an outbreak of the deadly new virus, named Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, that is similar to the SARS virus that killed hundreds of people world-wide in the early 2000s and infected thousands more.

 

Vicky Sheppeard, the director of the Communicable Disease Branch within NSW Health, said the gathering of more than 3 million people in one place drastically increases the risk of disease.

 

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Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca Unleashes New Virus w/ 65% Fatality Rate

 

 

I wonder what the percentage of fatality is inherent, in Islam, itself?

 

They'd have to count the non-Muslims in that too.

 

More than 65%?