WHO sees 'high risk' of polio virus spreading across Gaza, assessment underway

Reuters
Jul 23, 2024

WHO sees 'high risk' of polio virus spreading across Gaza, assessment underway


GENEVA, July 23 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization said on Tuesday there was a high risk of the polio virus spreading across the Gaza Strip and beyond its borders due to the dire health and sanitation situation in the war-ravaged Palestinian enclave.
Ayadil Saparbekov, team lead for health emergencies at WHO in Gaza and the West Bank, said circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 had been isolated from environmental samples from sewage in Gaza.