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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

In 2023, there were 524 polio cases in 32 countries caused by vaccine-derived poliovirus. It's a strain of vaccine-derived poliovirus that has been detected in the wastewater in Gaza—type 2.

Some 90% of Gaza's residents are displaced. Over the summer, the polio virus was detected in Gaza's wastewater and shortly after, a 10-month-old baby was diagnosed with the first case of the virus ...

In mid-August, a 10-month-old boy became partially paralysed after contracting polio — the first such case in Gaza this century. The poliovirus detected in Gaza is believed to be vaccine-derived.

Officials hope to vaccinate more than 640,000 children under age 10. A mass polio vaccination campaign is underway in Gaza to inoculate children after the first case in 25 years was recently ...

The last day of the polio vaccination campaign is wrapping up in Gaza, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday. The campaign was launched after the first case of polio in Gaza in more ...

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 ...