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 ...

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 ...

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.

A mass polio vaccination campaign is underway in Gaza to inoculate children after the first case in 25 years was recently detected in the strip.. Several organizations -- including the World ...

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

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 ...

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.

Sure enough, the poliovirus detected in Gaza is believed to be vaccine-derived Type 2, ... The first confirmed polio patient in Gaza in 25 years is a boy named Abdul Rahman Abu Al-Jidyan, ...

DUBAI − A 10-month-old baby in Gaza has been paralyzed by the type 2 polio virus, the first case in the territory in 25 years, the World Health Organization said on Friday.U.N. agencies appealed ...