WHO on Gaza Polio Vaccination Campaign: ‘Massive Success’
World Health Organization (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday hailed the ongoing polio vaccination campaign in the Gaza Strip as a “huge success” after half a million children in the Strip received their first dose despite the war. As Breitbart News reported earlier this month, the Israeli government, working with international health organizations, has […]
Report: ‘Highly Evolved’ Polio Strain May Have Been Leaked From Same Wuhan Lab Testing COVID-19
An aerial view of the P4 laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province, on April 17, 2020. (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images) By Brooke Mallory, OAN StaffFriday, September 6, 2024 12:06 PM The same Chinese facility that allegedly leaked the new coronavirus to the world may also […]
WHO to begin Gaza polio vaccination campaign
The United Nations' World Health Organization (WHO) will launch a polio vaccination campaign targeting 640,000 Palestinian children on Sunday after the first polio cases in 25 years were reported in the Gaza Strip. Much of Gaza's health system and roads were destroyed in the war between Israel and Hamas, and its residents are scattered in […]
‘We cannot protect our children’: parents in Gaza face new threat of polio | Gaza
and othersLike many in Gaza, Eid Al-Attar, a teacher from the north of the strip, now spends his days searching for enough food and water to feed his family. Forced to flee eight times since war broke out between Israel and Hamas in October, the 42-year-old has done his best to protect his five children […]
Polio vaccine drive begins in Gaza
Palestinian health authorities and UN agencies began distributing polio vaccines to children in the Gaza Strip over the weekend, the Gaza Ministry of Health announced. It was announced on Saturday. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced last week that the polio vaccination campaign aims to vaccinate an estimated 640,000 children in the Gaza Strip. The […]
WHO says 'humanitarian pauses' in Gaza fighting will allow for polio vaccine drive to begin Sunday
The World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday that a “humanitarian pause” in the fighting in Gaza will allow a polio vaccination drive to begin on Sunday. The goal of the campaign is to vaccinate 640,000 children in the Gaza Strip amid the virus outbreak, said Rick Pieperkorn, a senior WHO official in the Palestinian Territories. […]
IDF Finds Polio in Gaza; Brings in Vaccines; Voluntary for Soldiers
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Sunday that they had found that water in the Gaza Strip was contaminated with the polio virus and that they had made available the vaccine to both soldiers and the general population. Vaccination of soldiers is voluntary, the IDF said. The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement: […]