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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 365

wild strain polio virus (WPV)

Illustrative. An child receives an oral polio vaccine, August 18, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)
August 21, 2022, 8:44 pm
Polio spread in Israel, US, UK highlights extremely rare risk of oral vaccine
Unlikely phenomenon becomes more glaring as world comes closer to wiping out naturally concurring disease, but now faces more cases caused by oral immunization
By Maria Cheng
A child is given an oral vaccine for polio in Neve Yaakov, Jerusalem, on September 10 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 14, 2022, 12:23 pm
Polio vaccine campaign expanding across country amid fears of spread
Health Ministry says nine cases diagnosed so far in Jerusalem area; drive to expand nationwide to children up to 6, with those aged 7-17 eligible after Passover
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A child receives the polio vaccine at the Health Ministry office in Beersheba on August 5, 2013. (Dudu Greenspan/Flash90)
March 7, 2022, 11:20 am
First new polio case in decades diagnosed in Israel
Unvaccinated 4-year-old in Jerusalem tests positive for mutated version of disease; parents urged to get their children’s inoculations up-to-date
By Amy Spiro
Illustrative: A child receives the polio vaccine at the Health Ministry office in Beersheba on August 5, 2013. (Dudu Greenspan/Flash90)
April 3, 2017, 4:03 pm
Israeli scientists find way to detect polio outbreaks earlier
Researchers from Ben-Gurion University say quicker discovery of wild virus will prevent spread of disease, save lives
By ToI Staff
A medical clown makes faces as an Israeli boy receives polio vaccination, August 19, 2013. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
August 23, 2013, 6:54 pm
Health Ministry halts vaccination of school-aged kids
Decision due in part to upcoming high holidays; 330,000 Israeli children have already been inoculated against the polio virus
By Yoel Goldman
President Shimon Peres, right, watches on as a medical worker administers a dose of polio vaccine to a young boy at a clinic in Jerusalem, on Wednesday (photo credit: Flash90)
August 22, 2013, 6:42 am
60,000 more children vaccinated as polio spreads
Total number of those vaccinated stands at 242,000; traces of the virus detected in southern city of Ofakim
By Yoel Goldman and David Shamah
A child is inoculated with the oral polio vaccine at a children's health clinic in Jerusalem. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 21, 2013, 6:13 am
Polio vaccine debate hits High Court
As hundreds of thousands of children are inoculated against the virus, judges must decide whether the campaign is safe
By David Shamah
A medical clown makes faces as an Israeli boy receives polio vaccination, August 19, 2013. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
August 21, 2013, 12:40 am
Polio spreads to northern Israel
Despite massive vaccination initiative, strains of the virus detected at a sewage plant in Baqa al-Gharbiya, near Netanya
By Stuart Winer
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