The Presbyterian Peace Fellowship started in the 1940s as a group that provided support to conscientious objectors to World War II and continue to speak out against war. Rick Ufford-Chase is the executive director.

Shuja Shafi, a microbiologist at Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow, United Kingdom, is a co-author of the editorial, “Hajj and the Risk of Influenza,” and the letter, “Influenza Vaccine Uptake among British Muslims Attending Hajj, 2005 and 2006,” published in the British Medical Journal, Dec. 9, 2006.

Aziz Sheikh is professor of primary care research and development at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and a co-author of the editorial, “Hajj and the Risk of Influenza,” published Dec. 9, 2006, in the British Medical Journal.

Shiraz A. Malik is executive director of the Islamic Medical Association of North America in Lombard, Ill.

Read an April 23, 2006, Seed magazine article about health on the hajj.

See a Dec. 7, 2006, UPI story about the flu warning.

Read a July 23, 2009 article about the warning sent out by health officials concerning Hajj and the swine flu epidemic.

Read a Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia page about Hajj requirements, the fifth pilar of Islam.

United for Peace & Justice is a coalition of more than 70 groups, including several religious groups, committed to opposing war.