Just Earth News | @justearthnews | 06 Mar 2022, 08:50 pm Print

Photo: UNICEF/Ayberk Yurtsever
Jerusalem: Israel has detected the first Polio case since 1988 in a four-year-old child.
The infection was detected in the child who was not vaccinated against the virus.
According to the statement, the ministry's Jerusalem bureau has opened an epidemiological investigation into the case and will be in close contact with the child and his family to provide specific instructions. At this stage the symptoms developed by the infected boy are unclear, though he has not been hospitalized. Based on the findings of the investigation, further recommendations will be given, reports Haaretz.
Prof. Haggai Levin, Chairman of the Public Health Physicians’ Union, told the newspaper “This is a very abnormal occurrence, and all the details matter: The results of this investigation, the strain, the vaccination coverage in the population of origin."
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