A 10-month-old baby has been partially paralysed after contracting polio in Gaza, United Nations officials have said.

According to the UN, Gaza, now in its 11th month of war, has not registered a polio case for 25 years, although type 2 poliovirus was detected in samples collected from the territory’s wastewater in June.

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said he is "gravely concerned" and confirmed that efforts are under way to roll out a vaccination programme in the coming weeks.

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mmmmkay!

Death to America and death to Israel

It’s f***ed up because polio is HIGHLY contagious but widely considered eradicated in the US and other countries with vaccination efforts

With this war, I’m not sure how they will get a big enough vaccination effort going

This could be a another huge problem for the people in gaza

"Now in it's 11th month of war"

LMAO news media is such a virus

touch a sliver of grass!

I promise I touch far more than you Mr Tarot card

Would you say the same thing to the millions of Palestinians being brutalized by US/Israeli bombardment?

I’ve done my research!

Have you?

What has that research taught you?

That it’s a sticky complicated situation and 20% of people have looked into the war and the years that set it into motion

Nice avi bro those some real udders 🍼

Nah polio is crazy man I’m a dumb f***ing idiot on the internet but bio weapon jumped in my mind when I read the headline

Being anti genocide is complicated for you?

Interesting

It’s actually not complicated and this line is the constant myth parroted by liberals to shirk responsibility and obfuscate the reality

On the one hand you have entity A, who is in a concentration camp. On the other hand, you have entity B, who puts them in the concentration camp. It’s actually all very clear and simple

I simply don’t support Hamas!! hope that helps

Then you don't support Palestinian liberation

but but can u stop protesting at DNC conventions there's more important things going on like meg twerking on stage

Hope u die painfully and slowly

I wouldn’t put that past the IOF at all

From the bottom of my heart: yikes

That’s kinda my question - how does polio spread?

If it’s through waste or generally germ-based, then probably not a bioweapon so much as the result of completely decimating a city’s sewer system. Not only around you surrounded by it, bombings are probably kicking up clouds of all types of dangerous germs from loose corpses, dead animals, etc

not that complicated; one side is actively trying to annihilate an entire country from the world