WHO 'extremely worried' at prospect of polio, other outbreaks in Gaza

A senior World Health Organisation official on Tuesday said he was "extremely worried" by the possibility of disease outbreaks after poliovirus was reported in sewage, warning that communicable diseases could cause more deaths than injuries. Ayadil Saparbekov, the WHO’s head of health emergencies in the occupied Palestinian territories, said that "We have not yet collected human samples," so it is unclear if anyone has been infected with the virus.