‘Positive’ start to polio vaccination rollout in Gaza despite continued fighting

WHO says at least 90% of Gaza’s under-10s must be vaccinated to prevent polio from spreading.

2024-09-01  756  中等

Aid workers have warned for months of possible outbreaks of other life-threatening and highly contagious diseases such as polio and cholera; those fears were confirmed last week when the territory recorded its first case of type 2 polio since 1999 in a 10-month-old boy, who had begun crawling early, but is now paralysed in one leg. The WHO estimates that hundreds more people are probably infected, but not showing symptoms.

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