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Gaza toddlers got the polio vaccine, then an Israeli bomb took their legs
2 days, 5 hours ago

Gaza toddlers got the polio vaccine, then an Israeli bomb took their legs

Al Jazeera  

Deir el-Balah, Gaza – Three-year-old Hanan al-Daqqi spends her days with her younger sister Misk, occasionally asking questions. “Where’s Mama?” “Where did my legs go?” The two toddlers have been in the hospital for four months since they were brought there, battered and bleeding from an Israeli bombing, and had their legs amputated. It killed 25-year-old Shaima and injured the …

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Column: The latest evidence that putting RFK Jr. in charge of public health would be a disaster
1 week ago

Column: The latest evidence that putting RFK Jr. in charge of public health would be a disaster

LA Times  

Polio came for 5-year-old Lynn Lane when she was visiting her grandmother in rural Indiana. “I’m not in a wheelchair yet,” said Lane, who uses leg braces and crutches, “but it’s heading that way.” The idea that anyone would question the polio vaccine now, she said, “makes me nuts.” Last week, the New York Times reported that in 2022, Robert …

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‘This is a lie’: RFK Jr. criticized by experts, including Trump Surgeon General
1 week ago

‘This is a lie’: RFK Jr. criticized by experts, including Trump Surgeon General

Raw Story  

Medical experts, including Donald Trump’s first-term Surgeon General, are questioning Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination for Secretary of Health and Human Services and urging the Senate to uphold its "obligation" to conduct a thorough vetting process, following resurfaced remarks RFK Jr. made last year about the polio vaccine, suggesting it "killed many, many more people" than polio ever did. Responding …

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Amid rising polio cases, Pakistan begins last vaccination drive of the year
1 week, 1 day ago

Amid rising polio cases, Pakistan begins last vaccination drive of the year

Firstpost  

According to the World Health Organization, Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan remain the only two countries where the potentially fatal, paralyzing virus hasn’t been stopped Pakistan began on Monday its last nationwide vaccination campaign for the year to protect 45 million children from polio after a surge in new cases hampered efforts to stop the disease, officials said. According to the …

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Key lines from Trump’s first post-election news conference
1 week, 2 days ago

Key lines from Trump’s first post-election news conference

CNN  

CNN — President-elect Donald Trump, in his first news conference since his victory, downplayed concerns that his administration would revoke the polio vaccine’s authorization, suggested he could pardon New York City Mayor Eric Adams and said he will press Ukraine and Russia to end their war. We’re going to find out a lot.” But he also described Kennedy — the …

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Polio outbreak in Pakistan: This year’s tally at 50, new case from area where gunmen targeted health workers
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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Pakistan reports new polio case in northwest, raising nationwide tally to 50 cases this year
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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Israel denies responsibility for drone strike on Gaza polio vaccination centre
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Israel denies responsibility for drone strike on Gaza polio vaccination centre

ABC  

Gaza's health ministry says an Israeli drone struck a clinic in northern Gaza where children were being vaccinated against polio, a claim Israel's military has denied. Health authorities in Gaza said 13 of those deaths happened in northern Gaza, where Israel's military has staged an offensive, claiming it wants to prevent a regrouping of militant group Hamas. On Sunday, three …

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Israel-Gaza War: First Cross-Border Attack from North Gaza on Israel in Weeks, UN Warns of Humanitarian Crisis
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Israel-Gaza War: First Cross-Border Attack from North Gaza on Israel in Weeks, UN Warns of Humanitarian Crisis

Firstpost  

Major developments in the Gaza war unfolded Saturday (November 2). A strike by Israel on a polio vaccination center in Gaza drew sharp criticism from the World Health Organisation (WHO). Meanwhile, projectiles reportedly fired from North Gaza marked the first cross-border attack on Israel from there in weeks.

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Pakistan bombing kills seven, including five children, in attack targeting polio vaccination team
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Pakistan bombing kills seven, including five children, in attack targeting polio vaccination team

ABC  

A bomb which targeted a polio vaccination team near a girls' school in western Pakistan has killed seven people, including five children and a police officer. The attack follows the killing of two police officers who were guarding a polio vaccination team earlier this week. Pakistan and neighbouring Afghanistan are the only countries where polio remains endemic and vaccination teams …

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Mass polio vaccination campaign to immunise 200,000 children in southern Gaza extended by a day
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Mass polio vaccination campaign to immunise 200,000 children in southern Gaza extended by a day

ABC  

The United Nations and local health authorities have extended a campaign to vaccinate children in the southern Gaza Strip against polio by an extra day. Palestinian children receive polio vaccinations at a hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on September 5. Senior Gaza emergency service official reportedly killed in Israeli strike An Israeli air strike on a …

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Israel-Hamas war latest: Jenin refugee camp is left to deal with the aftermath of an Israeli raid
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Israel-Hamas war latest: Jenin refugee camp is left to deal with the aftermath of an Israeli raid

The Independent  

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UN begins polio vaccination in Gaza
3 months, 3 weeks ago

UN begins polio vaccination in Gaza

China Daily  

A man holds a bottle of polio vaccine at a hospital in Gaza on Saturday. HANI ALSHAER/GETTY IMAGES The United Nations, in collaboration with Palestinian health authorities, began to vaccinate 640,000 children in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, with Israel and Hamas agreeing to brief pauses in the conflict to allow the vaccination campaign. Rik Peeperkorn, head of the World …

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Polio vaccinations begin for Gaza’s 650,000 children as Israel expected to pause military campaign
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Polio vaccinations begin for Gaza’s 650,000 children as Israel expected to pause military campaign

The Independent  

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Polio vaccine campaign begins in Gaza, as hostilities continue to worsen in West Bank
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Polio vaccine campaign begins in Gaza, as hostilities continue to worsen in West Bank

ABC  

A campaign to inoculate children in Gaza against polio and prevent the spread of the virus began on Saturday after the war-torn Palestinian territory recorded its first case of the disease in a quarter of a century. Children began receiving vaccines on Saturday, Gaza's health ministry announced in a news conference, a day before the large-scale rollout and first three-day …

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Deaths rise in Gaza and West Bank attacks, as a polio vaccine campaign begins in the Gaza Strip
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Deaths rise in Gaza and West Bank attacks, as a polio vaccine campaign begins in the Gaza Strip

LA Times  

Palestinians stand in line next to Israeli armored vehicles during a military operation in the occupied West Bank’s Jenin refugee camp Saturday. The West Bank remained on edge Saturday as Israel’s military continued its large-scale military campaign, the deadliest since the Israel-Hamas war began. The medical charity Doctors Without Borders in a statement said it was alarmed by the scale …

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Aid Groups Prepare To Fight Polio In Gaza
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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First case of polio confirmed in a 10-month-old child in Gaza, Palestinian health officials say
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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UN says 86 percent of Gaza now under Israeli evacuation orders
4 months, 3 weeks ago

UN says 86 percent of Gaza now under Israeli evacuation orders

Al Jazeera  

Israeli military carries out more attacks across the strip, killing at least 33 Palestinians amid mass displacements. The United Nations says 86 percent of the besieged Gaza Strip is now under Israeli evacuation orders as 33 more Palestinians are killed in yet another day of attacks and displacement. Reporting from Deir el-Balah, also in central Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud …

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Polio detected in Gaza sewage water, threatening new health disaster
5 months ago

Polio detected in Gaza sewage water, threatening new health disaster

CNN  

CNN — The highly infectious polio virus has been found in sewage samples in Gaza, putting thousands of Palestinians at risk of contracting a disease that can cause paralysis. WHO said the findings are linked to the “disastrous sanitation situation” created by Israel’s brutal military assault in Gaza since the Hamas attacks of October 7. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus …

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Will Pakistan ever be able to eradicate polio?
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Will Pakistan ever be able to eradicate polio?

Al Jazeera  

Six poliovirus cases have been reported so far this year along with numerous positive samples. Health workers have begun a campaign to vaccinate 9.5 million children against polio in 41 districts in Pakistan this week. Pakistan’s PM Shehbaz Sharif, however, said the government “remains steadfast” in its aim to eradicate polio after a meeting with American billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates …

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Seven killed in Pakistan after attack on vaccination workers
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Seven killed in Pakistan after attack on vaccination workers

The Hindu  

An officer who was critically wounded in a roadside bombing that targeted police assigned to protect polio vaccination workers in northwestern Pakistan died in a hospital on Tuesday, raising the death toll from the attack, claimed by the Pakistani Taliban, to seven. Police said in a statement that at least three officers remained in critical condition after Monday’s bombing in …

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TTP militants kill six Pakistani policemen going to escort polio vaccination team
11 months, 2 weeks ago

TTP militants kill six Pakistani policemen going to escort polio vaccination team

The Hindu  

A bomb explosion targeting policemen going to provide security for polio vaccination workers killed at least six of them and injured 22 others in Pakistan's restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on January 8, in the latest terror attack claimed by the dreaded Pakistani Taliban. The incident occurred in the Mamund tehsil of Bajaur district in the province bordering Afghanistan just when …

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Pakistan: Blast kills 6 policemen in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, TTP claims responsibility
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Pakistan: Blast kills 6 policemen in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, TTP claims responsibility

Firstpost  

The latest in a string of strikes by Islamist extremists ahead of the national elections on February 8, an explosion in northwest Pakistan, close to the Afghan border, on Monday left six police officers serving as polio vaccination guards dead and more than twenty injured. According to police official Kashif Zulfikar, the explosion struck a truck carrying police officers who …

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