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Global Efforts To Eradicate Polio By 2026

Learn about the history, impact, and ongoing efforts to eradicate polio, a viral disease affecting children worldwide.

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Wasn't polio wiped out? Why it is still a problem in some countries

Police has been eliminated in most parts of the world, but the infectious disease is still spreading in a small number of countries

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A 10-month-old Palestinian baby suddenly stopped crawling. Polio had struck Gaza

Ten-month-old Abdel-Rahman Abuel-Jedian is the first confirmed case of polio in Gaza and he's now paralyzed in the leg

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Gaza polio vaccine rollout hindered by Israeli evacuation orders, says UN

Aid workers preparing to distribute medicine to children in effort to contain outbreak call for pause in fighting

The Guardian - UK

UN Pauses Aid Deliveries In Gaza Over Safety Concerns

UN halts aid in Gaza due to safety concerns, impacting polio vaccination campaign. WHO warns of polio spread after first case in 25 years.

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Iran Plans Retaliation Over Hamas Leader Assassination

Iran vows measured retaliation, Italy urges restraint. Gaza receives polio vaccines amid conflict.

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Israel-Hamas war latest: Iran's foreign minister vows 'definitive' retaliation against Israel

Iran’s foreign minister again has referenced his country’s planned retaliation over the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran

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Israel Delivers Polio Vaccines To Gaza Amid Outbreak

Israel delivers polio vaccines to Gaza amid first confirmed case in 25 years, aiming to vaccinate over 600,000 children under 10. Ongoing conflict hinders ...

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Israel says more polio vaccines are delivered to Gaza, where aid groups seek pause in fighting

Israel’s military says polio vaccines for more than 1 million people have been delivered to Gaza, after the first confirmed case of the disease in the territory in a quarter-century

The Independent UK

Polio Vaccines Arrive In West Bank For Gaza Delivery

Polio vaccines have arrived in the West Bank and await delivery to Gaza following recent detection of the disease in sewage water, amidst ongoing conflicts...

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Baby in Gaza partly paralysed from polio in territory’s first case for 25 years

WHO says infant in stable condition as it prepares to vaccinate more than 640,000 children amid war

The Guardian - UK

War-battered Gaza Faces Uphill Battle Against Polio

The Gaza Strip's first recorded polio case in 25 years has health workers and aid agencies grappling with the steep obstacles to conducting mass vaccination in the war-torn Palestinian territory.

International Business Times

First case of Polio confirmed in Gaza as aid groups prepare for mass vaccination

THE first case of Polio has been confirmed in Gaza, as aid groups prepare to deliver a mass vaccination programme ...

The National (Scotland)

Aid groups in Gaza aim to avert a polio outbreak with a surge of vaccinations

The threat of polio is rising fast in Gaza, prompting aid groups to call for an urgent pause in the war so they can ramp up vaccinations and head off a full-blown outbreak

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Israel-Gaza war: new evacuation orders in Gaza as 15 reported killed in Israeli strike – as it happens

Israel’s military spokesperson posted instructions on X for people in parts of central Gaza to evacuate

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First Polio Case In Gaza In 25 Years

First case of polio in Gaza raises concerns about disease spread and calls for urgent coordinated efforts to contain it.

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Gaza records first polio case as UN calls for truce to tackle virus

Hamas says it supports UN request to halt the fighting to allow a vaccination campaign for children against polio.

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'We don’t have clean water': Unicef issues polio warning as Gaza faces sewage crisis

THE UN has issued a fresh warning about the sanitary emergency facing citizens in Gaza and called for a mass polio vaccination campaign to get…

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Al Jazeera

Q&A: Uncovering Pakistan’s fight against polio

Despite a heavy flow of funding and regular campaigns, Pakistan has been unable to eradicate polio.

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Absence of ceasefire hurting fight against polio in Gaza, WHO says

The global health body says virus could spread even beyond Gaza if violence does not end to enable immunisation push.

Al Jazeera

Polio epidemic declared in Gaza in latest sign of worsening health crisis

Gaza’s health ministry calls for ‘immediate intervention to end aggression and find radical solutions’ to the emergency.

The Guardian - UK

Children in Gaza are now at risk of polio as well as bombs – we need a ceasefire now

We are sending 1m polio vaccines to Gaza but many people will die from preventable health threats unless we can quickly scale up aid delivery, says the WHO director general

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WHO Warns Of Polio Outbreak Risk In Gaza Strip

WHO expresses concerns about potential polio outbreaks in Gaza due to poor sanitation conditions, with traces of polio virus found in sewage. Limited healt...

The Guardian - AU

Discovery of poliovirus in Gaza ‘incredibly alarming’, Unicef executive director says

Exclusive: Territory is ‘one of the most, if not the most dangerous place to be a child’, Catherine Russell says, and ‘we desperately need this conflict to end’

The National (Scotland)

'High risk' of polio outbreak in Gaza as Israel begins vaccinating soldiers

THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has said there is a “high risk” of a polio outbreak in Gaza.

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