Historical outbreaks

The strain El Tor de cholera was discovered in six pilgrims returning from hajj in El-Tor quarantine camp in Egypt, in 1905.

To the collapse of the Ghaza hotel A multistory concrete, located in Mecca near the Great Mosque collapsed on January 5, 2006. The building, the Al Ghaza hotel, is said to have housed a restaurant, a convenience store, and a hostel. The lodge was informed that they have been pilgrims housing for the Hajj of 2006. It is not clear how many pilgrims were in the hotel at the time of the collapse. From the most recent reports, the death toll is 76 and the number of injured is 64. Other fatal events

Before the start of the first day of Hajj in December 2006, 243 pilgrims died, according to a statement from the Saudi government.   The majority of deaths were related to reports of heart problems and exhaustion of the elderly and people with weak health, caused by the heat and exhausting physical work involved in the pilgrimage. After the conclusion of the pilgrimage, the Nigerian government reported that 33 citizens died mostly, "as a result of high blood pressure, diabetes and heart attacks", not due to any epidemic disease. They deny accusations that some Nigerian pilgrims died in an accident on a road to Mina.  The official news agency of Egypt has reported that on Saturday, December 30 (10 Thull Hiyyah) 22 Egyptian pilgrims had died.   Four elderly Filipino pilgrims aged 50 died during the pilgrimage of diseases or other "natural causes", and were buried in Mecca.   The Pakistan Medical Commission Hajj has announced that some 130 pilgrims died from Pakistan during the Hajj season in Saudi Arabia, "mostly aged and the victims of patients with pneumonia and heart failure", and that 66 pilgrims were admitted In Saudi hospitals for similar ailments.

In early December 2006, a car carrying pilgrims from the holy places of Medina to Mecca crashed 55 miles north of Rabegh port near Jeddah, killing three and injuring the British that another 34, including two children .