Highly infectious disease confirmed in 10-month-old as UN chief urges pauses in fighting to contain spread
Gaza has recorded its first polio case in 25 years, the Palestinian health ministry said on Friday, after the UN chief, António Guterres, called for pauses in the Israel-Hamas war to vaccinate hundreds of thousands of children.
“Doctors suspected the presence of symptoms consistent with polio,” the health ministry said. “After conducting the necessary tests in the Jordanian capital, Amman, the infection was confirmed.” “Preventing and containing the spread of polio will take a massive, coordinated and urgent effort,” Guterres told reporters at UN headquarters in New York. “I am appealing to all parties to provide concrete assurances right away guaranteeing humanitarian pauses for the campaign.”Organization and UN children’s fund Unicef said they were planning two seven-day vaccination drives across the Gaza Strip, starting in late August, against type 2 poliovirus .
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