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A 10 month-old baby is the first recorded case of polio in the Gaza city of Deir al-Balah, the Palestinian health ministry said Friday. The child, who had symptoms of the highly infectious disease, had not received any doses of the polio vaccine. Tests conducted in Amman, the capital of Jordan, confirmed the infection in the baby. Last month, tests found the poliovirus in wastewater samples in Gaza.
WHO said a variant of type 2 was discovered in mid-July in wastewater samples from southern Khan Younis and central Deir al-Balah, and linked to a variant of the polio virus last detected in Egypt in 2023. In a major worry, WHO said three children in Gaza have already been found with “acute flaccid paralysis” — the onset of weakness or paralysis with reduced muscle tone that is a common symptom of polio.
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