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Life & Style
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Health
4/3/2025 9:07:27 AM
A new study found shingles vaccination cut older adults’ risk of developing dementia over the next seven years by 20%.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
2/28/2025 1:35:29 PM
The United Nations said Friday that a five-day polio vaccination campaign has vaccinated over 600,000 Palestinian children in Gaza under the age of 10 against the disease.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
2/19/2025 2:51:32 PM
The United Nations health chief says another polio vaccination campaign will be launched in the Gaza Strip on Saturday.
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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
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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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 11:15:42 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
8/23/2024 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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Life & Style
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Health
7/17/2024 1:31:18 PM
Global childhood vaccination levels have stalled, leaving millions more children un- or under-vaccinated than before the pandemic, the U.N. said, warning of dangerous coverage gaps enabling outbreaks of diseases like measles.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
7/16/2024 10:07:19 PM
The Ministry of Agriculture is launching the second national campaign to vaccinate livestock against foot and mouth disease and Rift Valley fever, reports Mai Samih
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Life & Style
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Health
5/2/2024 1:49:24 PM
The EU's drug watchdog urged that anti-Covid jabs be updated before another round of vaccinations to counter a new variant of the virus, which is still claiming thousands of lives.
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Life & Style
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Health
1/24/2024 1:21:34 PM
Europe saw 30,000 measles cases last year, 30 times higher than for 2022, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday calling for an “urgent” vaccination campaign.
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