Around 1.26m doses of the novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2) are already in Gaza, with 400,000 additional doses…
More than 640,000 children are targeted to receive the polio type two (nOPV) vaccines, UNICEF said in a post on…
Poliovirus, most often spread through sewage and contaminated water, is highly infectious.It can cause disfigurement and paralysis, and is potentially…
Head of the UN World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed deep concern at the development and said that…
“At least two rounds of [orally delivered polio vaccine] will be necessary to shut down transmission,” the World Health Organization…
It will be a “huge logistical challenge” to ensure the 1.2 million vaccine doses are deployed successfully, said WHO official…
Almost 10 months of war and intense Israeli bombardment have shattered healthcare in Gaza and disrupted routine inoculation rounds for…
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced that the vaccines will be administered to children in the coming weeks.He noted that no cases of polio have been recorded…
No associated paralytic cases have been recorded so far. But the Israeli military said on Sunday that it had begun…
In a statement, Christian Lindmeier, spokesperson for the World Health Organization (WHO), said that vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (VDPV2) had…