He said 58 acute flaccid paralysis cases, a possible symptom of polio, had been reported in Deir Ezzor this year through June 6. GENEVA (AP) — A U.N. humanitarian aid adviser for Syria says trucks are being prepared to ship polio vaccine into Islamic State group-held areas of Deir Ezzor governorate following confirmation of a "very dangerous" outbreak of the virus. Egeland said "it's one of the remarkable things" of Syria's war that people have been reached with vaccines, even in the Deir Ezzor and Raqqa governorates held by IS. Jan Egeland made the comments to reporters Thursday in the wake of the confirmation announced last week by the World Health Organization of two cases in Deir Ezzor of a polio strain derived from vaccines that mutated under weakening health and immunization conditions.
/ AFP / DELIL SOULEIMAN Displaced Syrians queue to receive food aid on June 9, 2017 at the al-Mabrouka camp in the village of Ras al-Ain on the Syria-Turkey border, where many Syrians who fled from territory held by ISIS in Deir al-Zor and Raqqa are taking shelter.
UN to send polio vaccine to ISIS-held areas in Syria
ARA NewsA United Nations' humanitarian aid adviser for Syria said on Thursday that trucks are being prepared to deliver anti-polio vaccine to areas held by militants of the Islamic State group (ISIS) in eastern Syria. The shipment is to be delivered to Syria's eastern province of Deir ez-Zor, which is largely under ISIS control.
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