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'Is insurance prepared to pay for polio?' MSNBC host angrily pounces on RFK Jr.

A discussion on MSNBC on how insurance companies create roadblocks to Americans seeking medical care swerved into reporting that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has been tabbed by Donald Trump to oversee the Department of Health and Human Services, has a key adviser who wants the polio vaccine taken off the market. MSNBC's "The Weekend" invited on Columbia University Associate …

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1 week, 4 days ago

Pakistan reports four new polio cases, year's tally rises to 63

New Indian Express

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has reported four new polio cases, bringing the crippling disease's total in the country for the year to 63--more than a ten-fold increase from last year's tally of just 6 cases. Despite repeated countrywide polio vaccination campaigns, two new cases were detected on Friday in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh provinces each, the Dawn newspaper reported, citing a …

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1 month ago

Polio outbreak in Pakistan: This year’s tally at 50, new case from area where gunmen targeted health workers

Firstpost

Pakistan has reported its 50th polio case of the year. AP Pakistan detected one more polio case in the restive northwest bordering Afghanistan, raising the country’s tally of the infectious disease to 50 cases this year, officials said Wednesday. The latest case was detected in Tank, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province where militants often target polio workers and police …

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1 month ago

Pakistan reports new polio case in northwest, raising nationwide tally to 50 cases this year

Associated Press

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan detected one more polio case in the restive northwest bordering Afghanistan, raising the country’s tally of the infectious disease to 50 cases this year, officials said Wednesday. The latest case was detected in Tank, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province where militants often target polio workers and police assigned for anti-polio campaigns, according to a statement by …

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1 month ago

Pakistan reports 50th polio case in 2024

Op India

Pakistan’s National Emergency Operations Centre reported another polio case, bringing the total number of cases this year to 50, ARY News reported on Tuesday. According to NEOC, the National Reference Lab identified the latest case involving a 20-month-old girl from Tank district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, ARY News reported. This is the second polio case reported from Tank this year, with …

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2 months ago

Two New Polio Cases Detected in Sindh, Pakistan

The Hindu

Pakistan reports two new polio cases, bringing the tally to 39 this year. The cases were confirmed in the Sindh province, marking the first polio cases in the province since April. The latest cases are a girl and a boy, and come after four cases were reported a day earlier. Pakistan has reported 39 cases of poliovirus this year, with …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Setback for Pakistan as Islamabad reports first polio case in 16 years

India TV News

Islamabad: In a major setback for Pakistan's efforts to eradicate the poliovirus, authorities on Friday confirmed the first polio case in the capital Islamabad in the last 16 years. “This is the first human case reported from Islamabad in the last 16 years,” an official statement said, adding that the newest case marked the 17th polio case this year in …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Israel-Hamas war latest: UNICEF says polio vaccination campaign in Gaza is surpassing its target

Associated Press

The U.N. children’s agency says a polio vaccination campaign in Gaza reached 189,000 children, surpassing its target and providing a “rare bright spot” in nearly 11 months of war. Those three paragraphs focus on the number of Palestinian prisoners who would be released in exchange for Hamas’ Israeli hostages during the first phase of the three-phased cease-fire deal. Netanyahu has …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Polio vaccine rollout ‘a huge undertaking’, says British doctor in Gaza

The Independent

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Aid Groups Prepare To Fight Polio In Gaza

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING On Thursday, the United Nations announced a plan to try to address one of the most terrifying consequences of Israel’s U.S.-backed offensive war in the Gaza Strip: the return of the feared poliovirus to the Palestinian territory. Starting Sunday, medical personnel working with the U.N., partner organizations and Gaza’s Health Ministry will attempt to provide polio vaccines …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Aid delivery in Gaza is nearly impossible. Why hasn’t the US intervened?

Al Jazeera

The UN says Israel is hampering efforts to deliver vaccines and other aid, but the US has offered little public pressure. “The United States government has run out of words and hasn’t even issued its usual performative statements to comment on the UN suspension of its aid operations in Gaza,” said Raed Jarrar, the advocacy director at Democracy for the …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

WHO announces limited pauses in Gaza fighting to allow for polio vaccinations

LA Times

Infant Abdel-Rahman Abu El-Jedian, an 11-month-old who suffers from polio, is held by his mother, center, at a makeshift tent camp in Deir al Balah, central Gaza Strip, on Tuesday. The U.N. World Health Organization announced Thursday that there will be limited pauses in fighting in Gaza to allow for polio vaccinations for hundreds of thousands of children after a …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

A 10-month-old Palestinian baby suddenly stopped crawling. Polio had struck Gaza

Associated Press

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Born into the devastating Israel-Hamas war, 10-month-old Abdel-Rahman Abu El-Jedian started crawling early. Suddenly, he stopped crawling, stopped moving, stopped standing up, and stopped sitting.” Health care workers in Gaza have been warning of the potential for a polio outbreak for months, as the humanitarian crisis unleashed by Israel’s offensive on the strip only grows. …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

A 10-month-old Palestinian baby suddenly stopped crawling. Polio had struck Gaza

The Independent

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3 months, 4 weeks ago

UN halts Gaza aid deliveries after Israeli military orders new evacuation amid polio vaccine push

CNN

CNN — The United Nations temporarily paused aid deliveries in Gaza on Monday over safety concerns after the Israeli military issued new evacuation orders, a senior UN official said, possibly complicating the launch of a polio vaccination campaign. In separate statements Tuesday, the UN’s main relief agency in Gaza, UNRWA, and the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the occupied West …

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3 months, 4 weeks ago

Israel says more polio vaccines are delivered to Gaza, where aid groups seek pause in fighting

Associated Press

Polio vaccines for more than 1 million people have been delivered to Gaza, Israel’s military said Sunday, after the first confirmed case of the disease in the territory in a quarter-century. The new statement by the Israeli military body responsible for Palestinian civilian affairs said five trucks with special refrigeration equipment for vaccine storage were brought into Gaza on Friday …

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4 months ago

Centre says Meghalaya polio case is vaccine-derived

The Hindu

A case of vaccine-derived polio has been confirmed in a two-year-old child from Tikrikilla in Meghalaya. A senior official from the Union Health Ministry official emphasised on Tuesday that this is not a case of wild polio, but an infection that presents in some people with low immunity. High alert Officials in Meghalaya’s West Garo Hills district are on high …

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4 months ago

Health Talk | Understanding vaccine-derived polio and its implications

Hindustan Times

Last week, a two-and-a-half-year-old child in Meghalaya’s West Garo Hills tested positive for poliomyelitis, commonly known as polio. Vaccine-derived poliovirus is a strain of poliovirus that has mutated from the strain originally contained in oral polio vaccines. However, the reporting of vaccine-derived cases does not indicate the return of wild polio, which was officially eradicated in India in 2014, as …

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4 months, 1 week ago

UN calls for Gaza ceasefire to allow children to be vaccinated against polio after case confirmed

ABC

The UN is calling for a ceasefire in Gaza so it can launch a polio vaccination campaign following a confirmed case of the disease there. "Let's be clear: The ultimate vaccine for polio is peace and an immediate humanitarian ceasefire," Mr Guterres said on Friday. Mr Guterres said the UN was poised to launch a vaccination program for more than …

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4 months, 1 week ago

First case of polio confirmed in a 10-month-old child in Gaza, Palestinian health officials say

Associated Press

RAMALLAH, West Bank — Palestinian health officials on Friday reported the first case of polio in an unvaccinated 10-month-old child in the Gaza city of Deir al-Balah, the first case in years in the coastal enclave that has been engulfed in the Israel-Hamas war since Oct. 7. After discovering the child’s symptoms, tests were conducted in Jordan’s capital of Amman …

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4 months, 1 week ago

10-month-old contracts Gaza’s first case of polio in 25 years

CNN

CNN — Doctors in war-torn Gaza have detected a case of polio for the first time in 25 years, health officials said, as international aid bodies call for a pause in the conflict to make way for a vaccination drive. Two rounds of vaccination are expected to be launched this month and next across Gaza, UNICEF said in a news …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Meghalaya’s polio case derived from vaccine: Officials

Hindustan Times

New Delhi: The case of polio confirmed in a child from West Garo Hills in Meghalaya on Tuesday involves what is termed vaccine-derived polio, which is not uncommon, confirmed an official from the Union ministry of health and family welfare on Wednesday. “It is a case of vaccine derived polio that has been detected in a 2.5 years old child …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Polio epidemic declared in Gaza in latest sign of worsening health crisis

Al Jazeera

Gaza’s health ministry calls for ‘immediate intervention to end the aggression and find radical solutions’ to the health emergency. Gaza’s health ministry has declared a polio epidemic across the Palestinian enclave, blaming Israel’s devastating military offensive for the spread of the deadly virus. In a statement on Telegram, the ministry on Monday said the situation “poses a health threat to …

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6 months ago

Rise in polio cases in Pakistan: Is there a way out?

Hindustan Times

Last month, Pakistan reported its fifth case of the deadly virus. "The cases this year are a striking reminder that no child anywhere would be totally safe from the crippling disease until Pakistan succeeded in eradicating polio completely," said Malik Mukhtar Bharath, the Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's coordinator on national health services. "Pakistan and Afghanistan continue to operate in a …

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'Is insurance prepared to pay for polio?' MSNBC host angrily pounces on RFK Jr.

Pakistan reports four new polio cases, year's tally rises to 63

Polio outbreak in Pakistan: This year’s tally at 50, new case from area where gunmen targeted health workers

Pakistan reports new polio case in northwest, raising nationwide tally to 50 cases this year

Pakistan reports 50th polio case in 2024

Two New Polio Cases Detected in Sindh, Pakistan

Setback for Pakistan as Islamabad reports first polio case in 16 years

Israel-Hamas war latest: UNICEF says polio vaccination campaign in Gaza is surpassing its target

Polio vaccine rollout ‘a huge undertaking’, says British doctor in Gaza

Aid Groups Prepare To Fight Polio In Gaza

Aid delivery in Gaza is nearly impossible. Why hasn’t the US intervened?

WHO announces limited pauses in Gaza fighting to allow for polio vaccinations

A 10-month-old Palestinian baby suddenly stopped crawling. Polio had struck Gaza

A 10-month-old Palestinian baby suddenly stopped crawling. Polio had struck Gaza

UN halts Gaza aid deliveries after Israeli military orders new evacuation amid polio vaccine push

Israel says more polio vaccines are delivered to Gaza, where aid groups seek pause in fighting

Centre says Meghalaya polio case is vaccine-derived

Health Talk | Understanding vaccine-derived polio and its implications

UN calls for Gaza ceasefire to allow children to be vaccinated against polio after case confirmed

First case of polio confirmed in a 10-month-old child in Gaza, Palestinian health officials say

10-month-old contracts Gaza’s first case of polio in 25 years

Meghalaya’s polio case derived from vaccine: Officials

Polio epidemic declared in Gaza in latest sign of worsening health crisis

Rise in polio cases in Pakistan: Is there a way out?