More evidence that RFK Jr. would be a disastrous health secretary
Polio came for 5-year-old Lynn Lane when she was visiting her grandmother in rural Indiana. Suddenly, her arms and legs became weak, and by the…
Trump: ‘You’re not going to lose the polio vaccine’
President-elect Donald Trump held a wide-ranging news conference on Monday in which he said he would preserve access to the polio vaccine but equivocated on…
Trump nominees should ‘steer clear’ of undermining polio vaccine, McConnell says
WASHINGTON — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who had polio as a child, says any of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees seeking Senate confirmation should “steer clear”…
Outcry after RFK Jr linked to effort to nix US approval for polio vaccine | Donald Trump News
Backlash has been building in the United States following a news report that links one of President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed cabinet members to an effort…
Children Facing Polio: Call For the Right to Vaccination and Health
Pakistan is a country where C.S. Lewis’s saying does not apply. Lewis wrote thatchildren are not a distraction from more important work. It is the…
Gaza polio vaccination drive resumes as Israel continues attacks | Israel-Palestine conflict News
WHO says six people, including four children, injured in strike on polio vaccination centre in northern Gaza.United Nations agencies have begun a new phase of…
Five children among seven killed in attack on Pakistan polio vaccine drive | Conflict News
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif condemns attack near a girls’ school in the southwestern province of Balochistan.At least seven people, including five schoolchildren, have been killed…
UNICEF: First phase of Gaza polio vaccination was successful
UNICEF reported Wednesday that 189,000 children have been vaccinated against polio in a successful first phase of the campaign underway in war-torn Gaza. The goal…
Polio vaccines do not protect children from bombs, says Gaza mother | Israel-Palestine conflict
NewsFeedDoctors say the vaccination campaign against polio in Gaza is going well, but parents are left wondering how to protect their children from the threat…
Polio returns to Gaza: Where else has the virus re-emerged? | Health News
Polio has made a comeback in the Gaza Strip after 25 years, forcing the United Nations and local health authorities to launch a vaccination campaign…
Mass polio vaccination drive kicks off in Gaza amid Israeli strikes | Israel-Palestine conflict News
Palestinian health authorities and United Nations agencies on Sunday began a vaccination drive against polio in the Gaza Strip, hoping to prevent an outbreak in…
Video: Polio vaccination campaign begins in Gaza | Gaza
NewsFeedThe United Nations has begun its campaign to vaccinate children in Gaza against polio, which can cause paralysis or even death. The first case of…
What to know about the polio vaccination campaign in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News
The United Nations, in collaboration with Palestinian health authorities, has officially begun a campaign to vaccinate children in the Gaza Strip against the poliovirus, which…
First children in Gaza given polio vaccines a day before planned UN rollout | Israel-Palestine conflict News
WHO says that the official larger vaccine rollout, which aims to reach 640,000 children, will begin on Sunday.Several children in Gaza have been given polio…
What we know about ‘pauses’ in Gaza fighting & polio vaccine drive | Newsfeed
NewsFeedA series of pauses in fighting are due to begin this weekend in Gaza to allow vaccination against polio, which has returned to the Strip…
UN says Israel agrees to pauses in Gaza fighting for polio vaccinations | Israel-Palestine conflict News
Agreement consists of temporary pauses in separate areas of Gaza with goal of vaccinating 640,000 children under 10.The World Health Organization (WHO) says it has…
WHO says Israel agrees to pause in fighting for polio campaign in Gaza | Newsfeed
NewsFeedThe UN’s health agency says Israel has agreed to at least three days of “humanitarian pauses” in Gaza to allow UN health officials to administer…
10-month-old boy is Gaza’s first confirmed polio case | Gaza
NewsFeedA 10-month-old baby is the first confirmed case of polio in Gaza in 25 years, after UN officials called for a pause in Israel’s war…
UN chief calls for ‘polio pause’ in Gaza war to tackle virus | United Nations News
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for humanitarian pauses in the war in Gaza in order to conduct a polio vaccine campaign after the…
Absence of ceasefire hurting fight against polio in Gaza, WHO says | Israel-Palestine conflict News
The global health body says virus could spread even beyond Gaza if violence does not end to enable immunisation push.The World Health Organization (WHO) says…