Poliovirus has been detected in Gaza ... “We are incredibly concerned because the conditions in Gaza will allow polio to thrive,” said Dr Jafari. Although no cases of paralysis – occurring ...

For more than 25 years, the Gaza Strip has been polio free. Then last week polio was detected in six out of seven routine sewage samples. “It's a very dangerous disease. And, in the situation of ...

It aims to vaccinate more than 591,000 children under 10, the WHO said. A mass polio vaccination campaign is set to continue in Gaza after the virus was recently detected in wastewater samples.

and linked to a variant of the polio virus last detected in Egypt in 2023. In a major worry, WHO said three children in Gaza have already been found with “acute flaccid paralysis” — the ...

no associated paralytic cases have been detected,” WHO added. It said no one has yet been treated in Gaza for paralysis or other symptoms of polio, but that residents must now “contend with ...

The first case of polio in Gaza in 25 years was detected in July. The last day of the polio vaccination campaign is wrapping up in Gaza, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday.

Doctors in war-torn Gaza have detected a case of polio for the first time in 25 years, health officials said, as international aid bodies call for a pause in the conflict to make way for a ...

While no human cases of polio have been detected, it’s unclear whether doctors in Gaza have the resources to test for it. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative, part of the World Health ...

Health workers in Gaza are starting an ambitious, mass vaccination effort in the Gaza Strip to stop the outbreak of polio and prevent international spread. The United Nations plans to reach more ...

Traces of polio virus were detected last month in sewage in Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis, two areas in southern and central Gaza that have seen hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced by ...

Sure enough, the poliovirus detected in Gaza is believed to ... doses specifically targeting Type 2 poliovirus. Polio vaccination rates in Gaza were at about 99 percent in 2022 but have dropped ...