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 ...

Emergency measures are clearly necessary to stop the outbreak of polio, a highly contagious viral infection, in Gaza. However, a temporary suspension of fighting will not resolve the humanitarian ...

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 ...

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.

By 2000, through mass vaccination campaigns of oral polio vaccines, the world had almost eradicated poiliovirus barring a few regions. However, the global fight against polio has encountered a ...

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 ...

Here is what we know about polio as a disease, its vaccines and the likely number of lives saved through inoculation. In its early stages, poliomyelitis — known as polio — causes fatigue ...

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday launched the year’s first nationwide anti-polio campaign, running from February 3 to 9, by administering polio drops to children under five and vowing to ...

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 ...

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday launched the first nationwide anti-polio campaign for the year 2025, the Prime Minister’s House (PMO) reported. The campaign will commerce on February 3 ...

The National Emergency Operation Centre (NEOC) on Wednesday said that the country’s first polio case of the year was reported in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Dera Ismail Khan district. Pakistan is one ...

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