Aug 1, 2024
In mid-July, reports began to emerge from the Gaza Strip that
polio was detected in the water. Days later, the Gaza Ministry of
Health declared a polio epidemic and called for “immediate
intervention to end the [Israeli] aggression and find radical
solutions” to the worsening public health crisis in the Strip.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said it was sending more than
one million polio vaccines to Gaza to be administered over the
coming weeks to prevent children from being infected. But whether
Israel would open up the borders to allow the vaccines in remains
to be seen.
In this episode, host Yumna Patel speaks with Yara Asi, a
Palestinian public health expert, about the consequences this
latest development could have for public health in Gaza and the
world, where most strains of the polio virus have effectively been
eradicated.
Yara M. Asi is an Assistant Professor at the University of Central
Florida in the School of Global Health Management and Informatics
and Co-Director of the Palestine Program for Health and Human
Rights. Her work has been featured in peer-reviewed journals, The
New York Times, The Nation, The Washington Post, and other outlets.
She is the author of How War Kills: The Overlooked Threats to our
Health (2024).
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