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A 10-month-old child in Deir al-Balah, Gaza has been diagnosed as having polio, according to the UN World Health Organisation (WHO) in a statement released on Friday August 23. This is the first confirmed case to emerge in Gaza in over 25 years. According to the head of WHO, Terdos Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the infant’s lower left leg has been paralysed; however the child is now in a “stable condition”. Initial reports of polio in Gaza surfaced last June, when traces…
