GENEVA: A large-scale vaccination campaign to fight a polio outbreak in the Gaza Strip is set to begin on September 1, announced the World Health Organisation (WHO) representative for the occupied ...

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In 2016, the global health authorities removed a type of poliovirus from the oral vaccine. The virus caused a growing number ...

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Childhood death rates are on the rise across the United States, new research has found. Between 2018 and 2022, child and adolescent mortality increased by 18.8 percent, more than twice the ...

Since it was widely introduced 16 years ago, cervical cancer rates have been reduced by almost 90% in women in their 20s who received the vaccine as children.

So, you can see that as of then, only seven per cent of our children were reached with the Penta 3 vaccine. “The agency was created that same year, the task was to bring in new things to change ...

The U.N. children’s agency says a polio vaccination campaign in Gaza reached ... could cause the war in Gaza to spread into a regional conflict. White House national security spokesperson ...

Humanitarian groups have blamed the re-emergence of polio in Gaza on disruption to child vaccination programmes as well as massive damage to water and sanitation systems caused by the war.

The CDC says the vaccination rate among kindergartners is dropping. And according to Gallup, fewer Americans overall think childhood vaccinations are important. These trends help explain why ...