Polio vaccine at gunpoint in Gaza

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Children under the age of 10 have been vaccinated against polio in the conflict-affected Gaza Strip. The vaccination campaign was launched after the first polio infection in Gaza in 25 years. According to the BBC, thousands of children are queuing up to be vaccinated.

Dr. Primary Health Director under the Ministry of Health run by Hamas. Moussa Abed stated that the vaccination campaign is going on very enthusiastically. "There are very long queues at vaccination centers," he said. According to him, UN and local health workers are giving vaccinations to children.

In the first phase of the vaccination campaign, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said that it has been agreed to stop the war from 6 am to 3 pm local time for three days from Sunday. WHO has said that there is an agreement to stop the war for another day if necessary. 1.26 million doses of Novel Oral Polio Vaccine Type-2 (NOPV-2) have reached Gaza for the

campaign. It is said that an additional 4 lakh doses will arrive in some time. It is said that at least 640,000 children in Gaza will be given the polio vaccine.

The Palestinian rebel group Hamas attacked on October 7 and killed about 1,200 people in Israel. After the attack, Hamas took 251 hostages. 97 of them are still under the control of Hamas. The said 40,530 people have been killed in Gaza in the attack launched by Israel in response to the attack. Since then, efforts for a ceasefire have been unsuccessful.

Polio is a serious and contagious disease that mostly affects children under the age of five. It is caused by a virus, which can be spread easily through the feces of an infected person and contaminated food or water.

After the infection of this virus not all may show symptoms . But one of two hundred infections can enter the brain and nervous system and cause paralysis. Such a problem can occur within a few hours. After infection, 5 to 10 percent of those with paralysis may die because it immobilizes the muscles used for breathing.

Now this disease is rare due to vaccination against polio in childhood. But before the global polio eradication campaign began in 1988, polio was seen in millions of children. was . Most countries have made polio vaccination a high priority. There have been no confirmed cases of paralysis due to polio in the UK since 1984. But it is constantly seen in Afghanistan and Pakistan.