What is the plan to give polio vaccines to children in Gaza?
A series of “humanitarian pauses” to fighting in Gaza are due to begin on Sunday, to allow hundreds of thousands of children to be vaccinated against polio. after contracting Gaza’s first recorded case of polio in 25 years./ Polio is a serious and highly infectious disease that largely affects children under five. It is caused by a virus that spreads very easily through contact with the faeces (poo) of an infected person or, less commonly, through contaminated water or food. Most people with the infection have no symptoms but some will ...
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