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Palestinian health officials have reported the first case of polio in an unvaccinated 10-month-old child in the Gazan city of Deir al-Balah. After discovering the child’s symptoms, tests were conducted in Jordan’s capital Amman and the case was confirmed to be polio, health officials said. It’s the first case of the disease in years to be reported in the coastal enclave that has been devastated by the Israel-Hamas war since last October. The potentially fatal, paralysing disease mostly strikes children under the age of five and typically spreads through contaminated water. Pakistan and Afghani…

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