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Monday, March 13, 2023
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Monday, March 13, 2023
Some 175,000 Israeli children have not received polio vaccine
File: A research assistant prepares a PCR reaction for polio at a lab at Queens College on August 25, 2022, in New York City. (Angela Weiss/AFP)
At least 175,000 Israeli children have not been vaccinated against polio, Channel 12 quotes the Health Ministry as saying.
Parents of children who have not been vaccinated are urged to take them to a local health center.
The report comes after the State of New York’s health department called for residents to get vaccinated against polio before traveling to Israel, where several children have recently tested positive for the virus.
In a statement Friday, the New York Department of Health noted the four cases diagnosed in the northern city of Safed earlier this month, a year after a small outbreak of the disease in the country.
It called on New Yorkers “to get fully immunized” before flying to Israel or other countries with polio.
