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World
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Region
11/3/2024 12:38:00 AM
In the face of the ongoing suffering of the Palestinian and Lebanese people amid Israel’s wars in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon, Ahram Online provided you with live updates of the most recent developments across the Middle East on Saturday, 2 November, as they unfolded.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
10/16/2024 5:28:34 PM
More than 150,000 children in Gaza received the required second dose of oral polio vaccine in the first two days of the campaign's second round, the WHO chief said Wednesday.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
9/12/2024 3:36:18 PM
The World Health Organization said Thursday it was "confident" that a giant polio vaccination drive in Gaza had hit its target of reaching more than 90 percent of children under 10.
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World
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International
9/12/2024 11:50:09 AM
More than 100 Pakistan police who provide security for polio vaccination teams in restive border areas went on strike Thursday after a string of deadly militant attacks this week.
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World
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International
9/11/2024 5:08:15 PM
Gunmen on motorcycles opened fire Wednesday on police escorting a team of polio workers during a door-to-door vaccination campaign in northwestern Pakistan, killing an officer and a polio worker, police said.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
9/7/2024 3:21:03 PM
Israeli air raids in the Gaza Strip killed more than a dozen people overnight into Saturday morning, hospital and local authorities said, as health workers were wrapping up the second phase of an urgent polio vaccination campaign designed to prevent a large-scale outbreak in the territory.
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Life & Style
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Health
9/7/2024 9:28:00 AM
Polio was eliminated from most parts of the world . But polio is one of the world’s most infectious diseases and is still spreading in a small number of countries. What is this disease and why does it come back?
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
9/3/2024 9:19:29 PM
The polio vaccination campaign in Gaza that unrolled this week is the first time in 11 months that Israel has allowed humanitarian groups to address an infectious disease in the enclave out of fears of a cross-border outbreak, writes Amira Howeidy
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
9/3/2024 8:04:59 PM
The WHO said on Tuesday that its emergency polio vaccination campaign in Gaza has reached more children than expected, with 161,000 receiving their initial dose in the first two days.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
9/1/2024 11:33:25 PM
Ghadir Hajji rushed to a clinic on Sunday in hopes her five children would be among the first to get vaccinated against polio, which has re-emerged in war-ravaged Gaza.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
9/1/2024 11:15:42 AM
A polio vaccination campaign officially began Sunday in the Gaza Strip where the United Nations has announced "humanitarian pauses" to allow for large-scale inoculation, a health official told AFP.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
8/31/2024 10:46:40 AM
The UN health agency and partners are launching a campaign starting Sunday to vaccinate 640,000 Palestinian children in Gaza against polio, an ambitious effort amid Israel's devastating assault on Gaza that has destroyed the territory's healthcare system.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
8/29/2024 10:18:38 PM
Israel has agreed to a series of three-day "humanitarian pauses" in Gaza to allow UN health officials to administer polio vaccinations in the territory, the World Health Organization said Thursday.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
8/28/2024 11:43:56 AM
Born into the devastating Israeli war on Gaza, 10-month-old Abdel-Rahman Abu El-Jedian started crawling early. Then one day, he froze — his left leg appeared to be paralyzed.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
8/23/2024 4:47:26 PM
The recent discovery of the first case of polio in the Gaza Strip in 25 years presents a significant challenge for health workers and aid agencies as they prepare for a mass vaccination campaign in the war-torn territory.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
8/17/2024 2:06:11 PM
The threat of polio is rising fast in the Gaza Strip, prompting aid groups to call for an urgent pause in the war so they can ramp up vaccinations and head off a full-blown outbreak. At least one case has been confirmed, others are suspected and the virus was detected in wastewater in six different locations in July.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
8/16/2024 6:41:28 PM
UN agencies on Friday called for two seven-day breaks in Israel's war on Gaza to vaccinate more than 640,000 children against polio, which has been detected in the wastewater.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
8/7/2024 7:28:10 PM
The World Health Organization will send over one million polio vaccines to war-torn Gaza after the virus was detected in wastewater there, the UN agency's chief said Wednesday.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
7/31/2024 1:06:20 PM
The health ministry in Gaza has declared the Palestinian territory a "polio epidemic area," accusing Israel's military campaign of destroying health infrastructure, which it says led to the recurrence of the virus.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
7/23/2024 6:27:34 PM
A top WHO official said Tuesday he was "extremely worried" over possible outbreaks in war-torn Gaza after poliovirus was detected in the sewage, warning that communicable diseases could cause more deaths than injuries.
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