Polio

U.N. calls Israeli evacuation orders in Gaza "complete disaster" for humanitarian work as polio vaccinations set to begin

As the United Nations prepared to begin a polio vaccination campaign in the Gaza Strip Tuesday, a U....

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Mom of Gaza boy with polio begs for help as Israel-Hamas war leaves family in tent camp: "Nothing is clean"

The mother of the boy who the World Health Organization says was diagnosed with the first case of po...

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Israel agrees to brief pause in fighting so Palestinian children can receive polio vaccinations, U.N. says

The United Nations World Health Organization said Thursday that it has reached an agreement with Isr...

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Gaza health workers Israel-Hamas polio vaccine rollout challenges

There were reports of both continued fighting and unusual calm in different parts of Gaza on Friday ...

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Large-scale polio vaccination campaign begins in Gaza

A large-scale campaign to vaccinate hundreds of thousands of children against polio in the Gaza Stri...

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At least 187,000 Gaza children vaccinated for polio so far, U.N. says

United Nations officials on Wednesday hailed limited pauses in the fighting between Israel and Hamas...

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