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.
In a major worry, the World Health Organization (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. “Their stool samples have been sent for testing to the Jordan National Polio Laboratory,” the Geneva-based U.N….
