Hundreds of thousands of children in Gaza are being vaccinated against the polio virus, but parents say the main threat to their lives are Israeli airstrikes.
There's one confirmed case. And likely hundreds more. As experts try to ID the source of the virus in Gaza, a huge vaccine effort has wrapped up stage 1 and gears up for the critical stage 2.
By Ibrahim Dahman, Sana Noor Haq and Pauline Lockwood, CNN (CNN) — More than 560,000 children aged below 10 in Gaza have received the first of two doses of the polio vaccine, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday, after Israel’s destruction of water and sanitation systems led to a resur…
The WHO and UN are wrapping up the first round of polio vaccinations in Gaza. In just a few weeks, when vaccinators will re-deploy to give kids under 10 the second shot of the two dose regimen.
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