The World Health Organization is sending more than a million polio vaccines to Gaza to be administered in the coming weeks to prevent children from becoming infected with the disease
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BRUSSELS, Belgium – The head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, July 31, that polio had been detected in Gaza and warned that children in the war-ravaged enclave would soon be infected by the disease if preventative measures were not quickly taken. “The detection of polio in Gaza is another reminder of the dire conditions the population is facing,” Tedros wrote on X. “The persistence of the conflict hampers efforts to identify and respond to preventable threats such as polio.”published late on Tuesday, in which he said poliovirus has been detected in sewage samples in Gaza.
Poliomyelitis, which is spread mainly through the faecal-oral route, is a highly infectious virus that can invade the nervous system and cause paralysis and death in young children.
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