(JTA) — A Ukrainian health official warned that Jewish pilgrims converging in Uman may bring with them the Ebola virus and other epidemics.
Larissa Kachanova, who heads the local branch of the Ukrainian government’s Sanitary and Epidemiological Management Center, issued the warning Thursday ahead of the arrival of approximately 30,000 Jews expected to spend Rosh Hashana in the central city, near the grave of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, the 18th century founder of the Breslov hasidic movement,
Pilgrims will come from “the United States, New Mexico, and Bolivia, where they have Lassa fever; Nigeria, where there is dengue fever; Mexico and India,” …read more
Source: JTA
