Toddlers wounded in Israeli airstrike hours after getting polio …
WEB1 day ago · Mere hours after getting their polio vaccinations in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, as part of a children's immunization campaign, sisters Hanan Al-Daqqi and Misk Al-Daqqi were wounded ...
Polio's last stand: The global fight for eradication - Medical Xpress
WEB3 days ago · The global public health community now has one primary task: to eliminate polio in these last few strongholds and get rid of the final 0.1% of polio cases to be polio-free worldwide. Although the ...
Gaza: WHO chief hails ‘massive success’ of polio campaign ... - UN News
WEB13 September 2024 Peace and Security. Around 560,000 children under ten have been successfully vaccinated against polio during the first round of an emergency campaign in the Gaza Strip, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Friday. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tweeted that it had been “ …
Baby in Gaza paralyzed by mutated polio strain ... - Associated Press News
WEBAug 29, 2024 · LONDON (AP) — The baby in Gaza who was recently paralyzed by polio was infected with a mutated strain of the virus that vaccinated people shed in their waste, according to scientists who say the case is the result of …
Polio is back – how concerned should Americans be? | CNN
WEBSep 15, 2022 · CNN — New York’s governor has declared a state of emergency after health officials detected poliovirus in the wastewater of five counties – evidence the disease is circulating.
United States confirmed as country with circulating vaccine …
WEBSep 13, 2022 · There are global recommendations for countries with cVDPV2 outbreaks to protect people from polio, and the United States is taking all appropriate actions to prevent new cases of paralysis. The United States now joins a list of about 30 other countries where cVDPVs have been identified.
Vaccine-derived polio is undermining the fight to eradicate
WEBJun 14, 2023 · In the past 12 months, just 21 cases of wild polio were reported in children across Afghanistan, Pakistan and Mozambique. But cases of another type of polio are worryingly high. Over the past...
New York adult diagnosed with polio, first US case in nearly a …
WEBJul 21, 2022 · A person from Rockland County, New York, has been diagnosed with polio, the first case identified in the United States in nearly a decade. The unvaccinated young adult began experiencing weakness...
Shot to Protect Against Polio and Five Other Diseases Is Approved …
WEBJun 30, 2023 · Adding polio protection to the existing five-component vaccine will raise its cost, but public health officials say the move is still economically advantageous.
Spate of polio outbreaks worldwide puts scientists on alert - Nature
WEBAug 22, 2022 · Cases of paralysis in the United States and Israel suggest vaccine-derived poliovirus has infected many people. The virus in widely used live oral vaccine for polio can on rare occasions mutate...