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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...