Poliovirus has been detected in Gaza, likely brought in from abroad by aid workers, officials have said. Six waste water samples tested by the Palestinian health ministry and UNICEF have come back ...

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.

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.

The highly infectious polio virus has been found in sewage samples in Gaza, putting thousands of Palestinians at risk of contracting a disease that can cause paralysis. Gaza’s Ministry of Health ...

A 10 month-old baby is the first recorded case of polio in the Gaza city of Deir al-Balah, the Palestinian health ministry said Friday. The child, who had symptoms of the highly infectious disease ...

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 for make way for a ...

The first case of polio in Gaza in a quarter century was confirmed earlier this month in a 10-month-old baby, who developed paralysis in one leg. It came shortly after polio was detected in six ...

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 ...

The strain that was found in Gaza wastewater is linked to a polio vaccine that has not been used in the U.S. since 2000, but is still used in other parts of the world.

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 ...