#Polio vaccine
Israel has agreed to three “humanitarian pauses” in the war on Gaza to allow the administration of polio vaccines in the Gaza strip, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday, August 29. Each pause will be three-days long. The decision follows the diagnosis of a 10-month-old child with polio on Friday August 23, the first case in Gaza in over 25 years. The infant’s lower left leg was paralyzed as a result. The WHO plans to vaccinate around…
