polio

A highly abridged version of the daily Dust & Stars.

In addition to vaccinating the civilian population in Gaza, in late July, the IDF began a broad vaccination operation for all the regular and reserve soldiers in the Gaza Strip.

Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry declared a polio epidemic in the Palestinian enclave last month, blaming Israel's ongoing military offensive.

"The detection of polio in Gaza is another reminder of the dire conditions the population is facing," Tedros wrote on X.

According to the WHO, polio is now endemic only in Pakistan and Afghanistan, but more than 30 countries are still listed as subject to outbreaks, including Gaza's neighbors Egypt and Israel.

Cases of polio have declined by 99% worldwide since 1988 thanks to mass vaccination campaigns and efforts continue to eradicate it completely.

The Technological and Logistics Directorate began a broad vaccination operation for all the regular and reserve maneuvering forces.

Alexander graduated law school, passed the bar and practiced law. He also traveled to every continent, his brother said.

Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only countries where the virus is still endemic, and in recent years more than 200 polio vaccination workers have been killed.

Judy Heumann was born in 1947 to two parents who had separately fled Nazi Germany as children in the 1930s.