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By Ari Rabinovitch and Nidal al-Mughrabi JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel recovered the bodies of six hostages from a tunnel in southern Gaza where they were apparently killed not long before Israeli troops reached them, the military said on Sunday. The Israeli military announced the recovery of the bodies from underground in the southern city of Rafah as a polio vaccination campaign began in the war-shattered territory and violence flared in the occupied West Bank. The bodies […]
A polio survivor known as the “man in the iron lung” has died aged 78, according to his family and a fundraising website. Paul Alexander of Dallas, Texas contracted polio at the age of six, leaving him paralyzed from the neck down and reliant on a mechanical respirator to breathe for much of the time. Though often confined to his submarine-like cylinder, he excelled in his studies, earned a law degree, worked in the legal […]
New York, United States | AFP The United States on Thursday reported its first case of polio in almost a decade. New York state’s health department said a person living in Rockland County, 30 miles (48 kilometers) north of Manhattan, had tested positive for the disease. America last recorded a polio case in 2013, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The latest case was a type “indicative of a transmission chain from […]
KIEV, Ukraine (AFP) — An 18-month-old child has been left paralyzed after contracting polio in Ukraine in a new case linked to low vaccination rates in the country, the health ministry said Wednesday. The ministry said vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 caused the disease as opposed to the original wild virus. “The parents deliberately refused vaccinations because of their religious beliefs,” the statement said without providing further details of the case in the northwestern region of […]
(Eagle News) — The World Health Organization and UNICEF have officially declared an end to the polio outbreak in the Philippines. In a joint statement, the two international bodies commended the Department of Health, partners and civil society for the “comprehensive outbreak response actions including intensified immunization and surveillance activities in affected areas of the country” that resulted in the virus not being detected in a child or in the environment in the past 16 […]
(Eagle News) — Starting today, Monday, Feb. 1 until Feb. 28, the Department of Health will hold the second phase of its Measles Rubella and Oral Polio Vaccine Supplemental Immunization Activity (MR-OPV SIA) amid the ongoing COVID-19 pademic and polio outbreak. The Phase 2 of the vaccination campaign will be done in the Visayas Regions, National Capital Region, Central Luzon and CALABARZON and aims to immunize close to 10 million children. “The Phase 2 […]
Health officials say no Bangsamoro child must be left unprotected https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OiHYX8YVqQ By Odessa Cruz Eagle News Service correspondent COTABATO CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) – The Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) is putting all efforts to reach every Bangsamoro child with its strengthened anti-polio vaccination campaign this year. This, as the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) extended technical support to BARMM’s Ministry of Health so that anti-polio vaccination can be carried out […]
https://youtu.be/lb_Zmuo-Jgw (Eagle News) The Department of Health (DOH) on Saturday, Feb. 15, reported one confirmed polio case in Nueva Ecija which brings the total number of polio cases in the country to 17. At the same time, the DOH also confirmed that environmental samples collected from Butuanon River in Cebu had tested positive for the poliovirus. This was after the confirmatory tests done by the Research Institute of Tropical Medicine. The latest confirmed polio case […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Health has recorded four more polio cases in the country, bringing the number of cases since an outbreak was declared in September 2019 to 16. The DOH said of the four, two were males aged two and three from Maguindanao. One was a two-year-old male from Sultan Kudarat and the other a three-year-old male from Quezon City. The DOH said the children experienced fever, diarrhea, muscle pain, asymmetric ascending […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Health has confirmed a fourth case of polio in the Philippines since the disease’s resurgence in the country after 19 years. In a statement, the DOH said the fourth case was from Mindanao. The agency did not elaborate. According to Health Secretary Francisco Duque III, the fourth case was confirmed following a test conducted by the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine and the National Institute of Infectious Diseases in […]
(Eagle News) — A third case of polio since over a decade has been recorded in the Philippines. The Department of Health said the case involved a four-year-old female from Datu Piang, Maguindanao who did not receive any dose of the oral polio vaccine. The DOH said the case was initially reported as a case of acute flaccid paralysis after consultation at the Cotabato Regional Medical Center. In September, the DOH declared a polio outbreak […]
(Eagle News)–Those traveling to the Philippines are urged to have themselves vaccinated against polio to ensure their protection. The Department of Health made the recommendation in light of the government’s declaration of a polio epidemic in September, after two cases were confirmed and environmental samples taken from the sewage of Manila yielded positive results for VDPV Type 1 for two consecutive months. In an advisory, the DOH said foreign nationals and returning Filipinos of all […]
