Following over a month of warnings, Gaza recorded its first case of polio since the highly contagious virus was eradicated there 25 years ago, prompting a Friday call by United Nations Secretary-General…
The director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on Wednesday that polio had been detected in Gaza and warned that urgent preventive measures had to be taken…
Health officials in the besieged Gaza Strip declared a polio epidemic on Monday and attributed the crisis to "brutal Israeli aggression," citing the large-scale destruction of water sanitation and waste management infrastructure. In a statement,…
As war continues to devastate Gaza and its people, we learnt last week that a variant of poliovirus has been detected in the region. The virus was isolated in six sewage samples…
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