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SAN MARCOS — The Hays County Health Department hosted the Centers for Disease Control and the Department of State Health Services (DSHS) for a presentation of its services and work on Wednesday, Aug. 21.

U.N. agencies now hope to expand the campaign to the harder-hit north and south of the territory.

Nearly 200,000 children in Gaza have been vaccinated against polio as part of a massive campaign as aid workers try to prevent the disease from spreading among kids. Doctors Without Borders medical team leader Dr. Naina Bhalla joined CBS…

Unicef calls inoculations ‘rare bright spot’ in war, as minister appears to suggest Israel might eventually fully withdraw

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 is to vaccinate 640,000 children.

Israel and Hamas observed limited pauses in the fighting to facilitate the campaign, the UN children’s agency said.

Israel and Hamas observed limited pauses in the fighting to facilitate the campaign, the UN children’s agency said.

The U.N. children’s agency says a polio vaccination campaign in Gaza reached 189,000 children, surpassing its target and providing a “rare bright spot” in nearly 11 months of war

The U.N. children’s agency says a polio vaccination campaign in Gaza reached 189,000 children, surpassing its target and providing a…

The Adamawa State Government has begun a mass vaccination of cattle against the dreaded disease in the Local Government Areas

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.