Gaza's polio vaccination campaign starts. ... The first case of polio in Gaza in a quarter century was confirmed earlier this month in a 10-month-old baby, who developed paralysis in one leg.

UNICEF said during the first two full days of the vaccination campaign, about 160,000 children received a dose of polio vaccine. Poliovirus was first detected in sewage samples from Deir al-Balah ...

Vaccination is just a piece of the polio response. For the next six months, officials will need to be vigilant to ensure there's no virus circulating in either the people or the wastewater of Gaza.

A large polio vaccination campaign started in war-torn Gaza on Sunday, September 1. The initiative, which is being led by the World Health Organization (WHO), aims to reach over 640,000 children ...

DUBAI — The Taliban has suspended polio vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan, the U.N. said Monday. It’s a devastating setback for polio eradication, since the virus is one of the world’s ...

The statewide polio vaccination rate among 2-year-olds is about 79%. In New York City, about 86% of children between 6 months and 5 years have received three doses.

The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund has launched a statewide immunisation campaign aimed at vaccinating over one million children against polio in Taraba State.The campaign was ...

A mass polio vaccination campaign began in Gaza on Sunday morning to immunize more than 600,000 children, the U.N. agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) and the World Health Organization said, as the ...

Afghanistan recently suspended its house-to-house polio vaccination efforts. Whether or not vaccinations will resume is uncertain. This has significant implications, because polio remains a threat ...

Polio vaccinations lag at some schools: Check your district Likely errors in state data were identified by the USA Today Network but still a few schools stood out with low vaccination levels.

The rate among children 5 and under across New York City who have three doses of the polio vaccine is 86 percent. But vaccination by ZIP code shows much lower rates across a range of neighborhoods ...

It’s rare, but turns polio vaccination into a far more challenging project than it otherwise would be. There have been 24 outbreaks of this vaccine-derived polio strain, causing more than 700 cases.