Las Fuerzas de Defensa de Israel (FDI) lanzaron una campa\u00f1a de vacunaci\u00f3n contra la polio para sus soldados en Gaza despu\u00e9s de que se detectara el virus en el sistema de alcantarillado del enclave, informaron los medios israel\u00edes. La campa\u00f1a de vacunaci\u00f3n, de car\u00e1cter voluntario, afectar\u00e1 a todas las fuerzas en servicio regular en la Franja de Gaza y a las reservas, inform\u00f3 el\u00a0Times of Israel.<\/p>\n
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched a polio vaccination campaign for its soldiers in Gaza after the virus was detected in the enclave’s sewage system, Israeli media reported.<\/p>\n
The vaccination campaign, on a voluntary basis, will concern all forces in regular service in the Gaza Strip and reserves, the\u00a0Times of Israel<\/a>\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n On Friday, World Health Organization (WHO) spokesperson Christian Lindmeier\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0that poliovirus type 2 had been located at six sewage systems locations on the Gaza Strip, adding that no one had so far been treated for\u00a0polio-related symptoms<\/a>. Lindmeier nonetheless\u00a0called<\/a>\u00a0the finding “extremely worrying.”<\/p>\n Haaretz<\/a>\u00a0reported that the IDF is concerned about the prospect of a polio outbreak given the sanitary situation in Gaza. Polio is a fecal-oral disease and infections can be linked to contaminated and poor sewage systems.<\/p>\n “The decimation of the health system, lack of security, access obstruction, constant population displacement, shortages of medical supplies, poor quality of water and weakened sanitation are increasing the risk of vaccine-preventable diseases, including polio,” WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus\u00a0wrote on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n After nine months of war, fewer than half of Gaza’s hospitals are functioning, according to the WHO.<\/p>\n