Israel and Hamas have agreed to brief pauses in fighting so that humanitarian workers can begin an inoculation campaign.

A mass polio vaccination campaign is underway in Gaza to vaccinate more than 640,000 children after the first case in 25 ...

Polio has been diagnosed in Gaza for the first time in 25 years, prompting the United Nations (UN) and local health ...

A ten-month-old boy in the Gaza Strip was recently paralysed by poliovirus – the first such case in the region this century.

One case has been confirmed, others are suspected and the virus was detected in wastewater in six different locations in July ...

Polio vaccination in response to a polio outbreak in the Horn of Africa, 2013. Photo: UNICEF Ethiopia – flickr.com (CC ...

There is no treatment for polio, but some symptoms can be improved with physical therapy and pain medications. Type 2 poliovirus was first detected in Gaza wastewater samples in July. At the time ...

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 ...

Polio was detected in sewage in Gaza's Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis governorates, Dr. Hamid Jafari, a polio specialist at the World Health Organization (WHO), said on Aug. 7, adding it was ...

Simply pausing & not stopping Israel’s bombing of Gaza to vaccinate children at risk of polio shows the limits of efforts to ...