LONDON (AP) — The baby in Gaza who was recently paralyzed by polio was infected with a mutated strain of the virus that vaccinated people shed in their waste, according to scientists who say the ...

A mass polio vaccination campaign began in Gaza on Sunday morning to immunize more than 600,000 children, the U.N. agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) and the World Health Organization said, as the ...

Polio has broken out before in Papua New Guinea, with the most recent incident happening in June of 2018, after a reported 20 ...

The call comes after polio was detected in environmental samples from Khan Younis and Deir al-Balah last month and after three children in Gaza have been found with suspected acute flaccid ...

Following the confirmed case of polio in Gaza, aid agencies and medical professionals joined forces to call urgently for a ceasefire to allow life-saving polio vaccinations to be administered to about ...

Younis R. Awadallah, a doctor who was once UNICEF’s top public health specialist in Gaza, had worked through four previous ...

According to a WHO survey, the polio virus was detected in 88% of samples taken in various Gaza neighborhoods. The virus is rapidly spreading across the war-ravaged enclave. Tensions flared up ...

JERUSALEM — A campaign to inoculate children in Gaza against polio and prevent the spread of the virus has begun, the Health Ministry said Saturday, as Palestinians in the Hamas-governed enclave ...

"It is impossible to conduct a polio vaccination campaign ... said earlier that it a poliovirus had been detected in sewage water samples from the Gaza Strip. He said that this situation was ...

The plan led to vaccine-linked polio outbreaks in 43 countries that paralyzed more than 3,300 children, the report concluded. Even before the Gaza case was detected, officials reviewing the ...