Over 1 million polio vaccines administered to Gaza children
COGAT and IDF announce the completion of the 2nd polio vaccination campaign for children in Gaza.
COGAT and IDF announce the completion of the 2nd polio vaccination campaign for children in Gaza.
Reports of ceasefire in Gaza to allow distribution of polio vaccines is false, Prime Minister's Office reports. 'Israel is allowing a humanitarian corridor for the provision of vaccines.'
The Hostages Families Forum is urging WHO and UNICEF to include the hostages in their ongoing polio vaccination campaign and all other health interventions.
The diagnosis comes after UN chief Antonio Guterres called for pauses in the Israel-Hamas war to vaccinate hundreds of thousands of children.
The IDF is working with various organizations to bring vaccines intended for the population of the Gaza Strip into the Gaza Strip.
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The health department issued the advisory after four children had tested positive for poliovirus in northern Israel.
A full fifth of the vulnerable are under one year of age, data shows.
New polio type 2 strain found to be resistant to current vaccine, arrived in Israel following outbreaks in New York and London, report says.
New York governor announces emergency measures after polio found in Long Island wastewater.
Discovery described as alarming by New York State health officials.
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Senator James Skoufis suggests yeshivot in Rockland County have a history of non-compliance with vaccine laws, then walks it back.
Disease believed to have been present in London for months.
Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis, Head of Israel's public health services, speaks about the pandemic and the serious outbreak of polio in Israel.
After polio scares in the capital earlier this month, the Ministry of Health announced the opening of an emergency vaccination facility.
Initial findings show polio in sewage of several cities, Health Ministry conducting additional tests.
Health Min. identifies two more polio carriers in Jerusalem. Only one is a contact of the girl who who was first diagnosed with the illness.
Parents have 'holy obligation, Torah commandment' to vaccinate children against polio, letter from rabbis Ovadia & Yitzhak Yosef says.
'What worries us most is that there is no treatment for polio,' top pediatrician Prof. Zachi Grossman says.
The four-year-old diagnosed with polio is suffering weakness in half his body, may be left paralyzed, report says.
Child was reportedly not vaccinated.
The Health Ministry says its closely monitoring polio cases in East Syria but says very slim chance of polio outbreak in Israel
World Health Organization reports 17 cases of polio in Syria since May, mostly in ISIS-controlled areas.
Pakistani Muslims blow up vaccination center as part of terror campaign targeting 'sterilization conspiracy against Muslims.'
Mass flight from combat zones could bring polio virus to at-risk populations.
If you were vaccinated as a child but have never had an additional dose, CDC says you should get one.
Minister of Health gets esteemed health expert's recommendation for immunization drive.
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Pregnant women can take the polio vaccination without fear, according to Bnei Brak Medical Center.
Some 30,000 children throughout the country were inoculated against polio Sunday, the first day that the inoculation effort went nationwide
Anti-polio operation spreads to entire country, with parents asked to bring young children in to get the oral vaccine.
Min. German says children make up over 95 percent of those carrying the polio virus.
The Ministry of Health has decided that the operation to vaccinate children against the polio virus will be expanded to all of Israel.
Mass immunization may be slowed as activist groups argue vaccines are dangerous.
A stupid decision in Nigeria appears to have revived the disease in the Muslim world. It then reportedly arrived in Israel from Pakistan.
Health Ministry urges vaccines after finding 2.5% of children in south carry polio virus.
Tests show that polio virus affecting southern Israel traveled here from Pakistan. Israel to embark on emergency inoculation program.
The Health Ministry is poised to inoculate 200,000 children against polio immediately - and has plans to protect an additional 300,000.
MK warns that health centers are failing to keep up with hareidi birthrate, putting babies at risk.
Israel needs to go on an emergency campaign to inoculate individuals in southern Israel against polio, the Knesset Health Committee said
Policy advocated by influential Muslim leader in Nigeria has sent polio to at least 23 countries in a decade.
A Knesset committee has approved a bill that would ensure all polio patients receive the same benefits, including new immigrants.
A Tel Aviv University researcher warns that polio is still a threat, contrary to the widespread Western belief the virus no longer exists.