Polio has broken out before in Papua New Guinea, with the most recent incident happening in June of 2018, after a reported 20 ...

The Gaza Hamas-run Health Ministry claimed to have identified the first case of polio in the Gaza Strip on Friday. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for a humanitarian ceasefire in ...

Gaza's Health Ministry said a United Nations-backed polio vaccination campaign meant to target over 600,000 children had been suspended, putting the enclave at risk of the revival of a crippling ...

Younis R. Awadallah, a doctor who was once UNICEF’s top public health specialist in Gaza, had worked through four previous ...

Israel's total siege of Gaza is entering its third month. Doctors and aid workers said they are seeing malnourished children ...

An Israeli blockade on the entry of polio vaccines into Gaza leaves the lives of over 600,000 Palestinian children at risk, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday. “The blocking of the entry of ...

JERUSALEM--A campaign to inoculate children in Gaza against polio and prevent the spread of the virus has begun, the Health Ministry said Saturday, as Palestinians in the Hamas-governed enclave ...

Gaza’s health authorities have been forced to halt a polio vaccination campaign in the strip due to a lack of supplies, threatening the lives of 600,000 children. Israel’s humanitarian aid ...

As polio reemerges in Gaza, a mother fears for her child's health In Gaza, a mother worries that her month-old son, Mohammed, could be infected with polio after the Palestinian health ministry ...