What is Polio?
highly infectious viral disease that can cause paralysis
What is Polio?
Specific strain of polio in Gaza.
What is 2 variant poliovirus?
a person who has been forced to leave their country to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster
Provides lifelong protection from Polio that contains a weakened form of the Polio virus.
This was the cause for the reappearance of polio and decrease in immunization rates in Gaza.
What is war?
Most refugees are this age group
Who are children?
This group of people are more susceptible to Polio and should get the oral Polio vaccine sooner rather than later.
Who are children?
This changed the vaccination strategy to combat the 2 variant strain (GPEI).
What is Global Polio Eradication Initiative?
These must be granted to refugees by their host countries.
What are rights?
contact with feces of an infected person
The new vaccine being used against polio in Gaza.
What is the novel oral polio vaccine type 2?
Where refugees are often sent and the reason that infections spread easily amongst refugees
What are unsanitized, overcrowded camps?