Israel finds 3 more children with polio

JERUSALEM, Mar. 3 (Xinhua) — Israel’s Ministry of Health on Thursday (March. Three cases of polio-infected children were reported during an epidemiological investigation after an 8-year-old boy in the north of the country. All three children tested positive for polio earlier this week, reports said. who was classified as a person with a history of close contact with the above boys did not show any clinical signs of polio Israel detected an outbreak of polio among nine infected people in March 2022, which led to a mass vaccination campaign for people under 17. The ministry announced that the polio outbreak in Israel had ended in July 2022, but the polio virus has been found in sewage systems across the country in recent months. It added that there are currently more than 150,000 children in Israel who have not been vaccinated against polio.