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Doctors warn of polio ‘outbreak’ threat as 2 new preliminary positive cases found

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by Nathan Jeffay


After Israel confirmed its first case of polio since 1988 this week, doctors said Friday that there are another two preliminary positive results from stool samples, raising fears of an outbreak.

An unvaccinated four-year-old girl was confirmed diagnosed on Sunday, and has now left Jerusalem’s Hadassah Medical Center for support in a specialist hospital, after the virus harmed her muscles.

The diagnosis marked the first clinical case of polio in Israel in 34 years…


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