The World Health Organization says a mass vaccination campaign against polio in Gaza will resume on Saturday, aiming to reach more than half a million children.
“The current environment in Gaza, including overcrowding in shelters and severely damaged water, sanitation and hygiene infrastructure, which facilitates faecal-oral transmission, create ideal conditions for further spread of polio virus,” the WHO statement said.
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#WHO![A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child at a hospital in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza [File: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]](https://friendica-leipzig.de/photo/preview/600/636398 "A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child at a hospital in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza [File: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]")
“The current environment in Gaza, including overcrowding in shelters and severely damaged water, sanitation and hygiene infrastructure, which facilitates faecal-oral transmission, create ideal conditions for further spread of polio virus,” the WHO statement said.
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![A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child at a hospital in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza [File: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/030/630/689/447/350/original/05bb013c7ca7c584.webp "A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child at a hospital in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza [File: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]")
