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 ...

Polio vaccinations wrap up in Gaza as officials try to inoculate 90% of children under age 10. The first case of polio in Gaza in 25 years was detected in July.

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.

While polio may have rallied Israel and Hamas into action, the resurrection of the disease in Gaza after 25 years speaks to the gravity of a sanitation crisis that is set to continue beyond ...

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 ...

H ealth workers vaccinated thousands of children in Gaza against polio on Sunday under a temporary, localized pause in fighting that was negotiated after the virus was detected in sewage samples ...

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Polio’s reemergence poses a threat to the war-torn territory and adjacent regions. A baby, Gaza’s first polio case in 25 years, can no longer move his limbs.

Dr. Majdi Dheir, the head of the campaign against polio in Gaza, said more than 2,700 people had been trained by experts from the health ministry, the W.H.O. and UNICEF to carry out the vaccinations.

The U.N. said more than 1.2 million doses of the oral polio vaccine arrived in Gaza, and an additional 400,000 doses are on the way. Vaccines will be delivered to 392 sites, while some 300 mobile ...