Israel needs to go on an emergency campaign to inoculate individuals in southern Israel against polio, the Knesset Health Committee said Monday.
Samples of sewage containing the virus have cropped up in six cities in the Negev, with the outbreak suspected of beginning in a Bedouin village. According to experts testifying at the committee, some 10% of the residents of the Negev, have not received polio inoculations.
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