JERUSALEM--A campaign to inoculate children in Gaza against polio and prevent the spread of the virus has begun, the Health Ministry said Saturday, as Palestinians in the Hamas-governed enclave ...

Ghadir Hajji rushed to a clinic in hopes her five children would be vaccinated against polio. This potentially deadly disease has re-emerged in Gaza amid attacks from Israel in its war against Hamas.

The UN, WHO, and UNICEF have all called for a "polio pause" to the hostilities in the Gaza Strip to allow hundreds of thousands of children to be vaccinated against the virus. The call comes after ...

There are an estimated 300,000 polio survivors in the United States. For some, the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary is reviving their painful memories. By Sheryl Gay ...

To go in and say all we want to do is polio, does not make sense," Bhutta said. UN aid teams resume polio vaccinations in Gaza ...

The note on the back cover of the book seeks to sum up the poet’s intent in inditing the crisis in Gaza: “The poems in this volume reflect a personal reaction to the heart-wrenching scene of ...

Gaza-born intellectual and refugee, Ramzy Baroud, argues that Gaza’s resistance has reshaped the conversation on popular ...

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief secretary Nadeem Aslam Chaudhry on Thursday said that eradication of polio was a national cause, so any negligence or laxity on part of officials in the ...

Their concerns weren’t unfounded. Polio is a debilitating disease that invades the body’s nervous system, and prior to the invention of the polio vaccine, it claimed the lives of hundreds of ...

After more than a year of bombardment and deprivation, all of Gaza’s children are in urgent need of support In a statement issued on Jan. 15, 2025, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell ...

ISLAMABAD: While polio cases were frequently reported in the year 2024, the government has expressed optimism about interrupting the virus in the current year. This commitment was made at a ...