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cord-286654-sox98pp3	Gautret, Philippe	The inevitable Hajj cough: Surveillance data in French pilgrims, 2012–2014	2015-10-03		.txt	text/plain	2572	136	49	To better characterize the "Hajj cough" symptoms and its outcome, this study provides a clinical description of respiratory symptoms experienced by a cohort of French Hajj pilgrims during three consecutive Hajj seasons. The "Hajj cough" affected all individuals independently on their age, comorbidities, vaccination status and use of individual non-pharmaceutical preventive measures against respiratory tract infections. At the moment, none of the usual preventive measures against respiratory tract infection have been proven effective, including vaccination against influenza which is recommended for all Hajj pilgrims by French authorities and vaccination against pneumococcal infections which is recommended for at risk pilgrims suffering chronic conditions and or for those aged 60 years and over [27] . Nevertheless, prescription of antibiotics to Hajj pilgrims suffering mild respiratory symptoms is frequent in local health care structures: 95-99% patients consulting at the Ear, Nose and Throat clinic of a Hospital in Mecca were prescribed antibiotics while 85-92% presented with upper tract respiratory infection including pharyngitis and tonsillitis [28, 29] .	./cache/cord-286654-sox98pp3.txt	./txt/cord-286654-sox98pp3.txt