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WHO says it surpasses its polio vaccination targets in first days of campaign to immunise more than 640,000 children.

The World Health Organization (WHO) says polio vaccinations of children in central Gaza have “surpassed the target” in the first two days of its immunisation campaign. Dr Rik Peeperkorn, the UN agency’s representative in the Palestinian…

161,030 children under the age of 10 were vaccinated on Sunday and Monday.

Gaza is grappling with infectious diseases, including polio, exacerbated by the continuing war.

The UN agency says localised pauses in the fighting have allowed 161,030 children to be inoculated.

Rik Peeperkorn, WHO representative for the Occupied Palestinian territories, told reporters that it had vaccinated more than 161,000 children under 10 in the central area in the first two days of its campaign, compared with a projection of…

The deployment of a safe and effective Lassa vaccine across 15 nations in West Africa might save 3,300 lives and up to $128 million in societal expenditures over 10 years, a peer-reviewed study, published in Nature Medicine has established.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Dr. Hamid Jafari, director of Polio Eradication for the WHO's Eastern Mediterranean region, about the effort to administer some 600,000 vaccines in Gaza.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Dr. Steven Furr of the American Academy of Family Physicians about childhood vaccination rates, as measles cases continue to climb around the country.

Stephenson Ojeifo, the Director of Public Health at the Edo State Ministry of Health has revealed that the state recorded two deaths due to diphtheria between January and August 2024. Speaking in Benin on Monday, Ojeifo disclosed that the…

A large polio vaccination campaign started in war-torn Gaza on Sunday, September 1. The initiative, which is being led by the World Health Organization (WHO), aims to reach over 640,000 children under the age of ten.

Research at Weill Cornell Medicine suggests that childhood immunization against HIV could one day provide protection before the risk of contracting this potentially fatal infection dramatically increases in adolescence.

The two deaths were from the six confirmed cases of the disease recorded during the same period.

Fighting in parts of Gaza has paused to allow young children to be vaccinated against polio.

Minnesota health officials are urging families to stay up to date on measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccines as more unvaccinated children in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area are getting ill from a measles outbreak.

The campaign began on Saturday and aims to reach about 640,000 children after the Strip reported its first polio case in 25 years.

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The Minnesota Vaccines for Children program provides free or low-cost vaccines for children in Minnesota who are uninsured.

CAIRO/GAZA >> The United Nations, in collaboration with Palestinian health authorities, began to vaccinate 640,000 children in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, with Israel and Hamas agreeing to brief pauses in their 11-month-old war to allow the…

UN aid agencies in Gaza began to roll out a polio vaccination campaign on Sunday. But the drive could face major challenges from the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.