It aims to vaccinate more than 591,000 children under 10, the WHO said. A mass polio vaccination campaign is set to continue in Gaza after the virus was recently detected in wastewater samples.

The first case of polio in Gaza in 25 years was detected in July. The last day of the polio vaccination campaign is wrapping up in Gaza, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday.

In 2023, there were 524 polio cases in 32 countries caused by vaccine-derived poliovirus. It's a strain of vaccine-derived poliovirus that has been detected in the wastewater in Gaza—type 2.

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 ...

Health workers in Gaza are starting an ambitious, mass vaccination effort in the Gaza Strip to stop the outbreak of polio and prevent international spread. The United Nations plans to reach more ...

no associated paralytic cases have been detected,” WHO added. It said no one has yet been treated in Gaza for paralysis or other symptoms of polio, but that residents must now “contend with ...

A mass polio vaccination campaign began in Gaza on Sunday morning to immunize more than 600,000 children, the U.N. agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) and the World Health Organization said, as 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 ...

Some 90% of Gaza's residents are displaced. Over the summer, the polio virus was detected in Gaza's wastewater and shortly after, a 10-month-old baby was diagnosed with the first case of the virus ...

Sure enough, the poliovirus detected in Gaza is believed to ... doses specifically targeting Type 2 poliovirus. Polio vaccination rates in Gaza were at about 99 percent in 2022 but have dropped ...

The last day of the polio vaccination campaign is wrapping up in Gaza, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday. The campaign was launched after the first case of polio in Gaza in more ...