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Emergency polio vaccinations considered in Raqqa following new report of paralysis

A Syrian child receives a vaccination against polio in 2015.

It’s news no one wanted. But the discovery of another Syrian child paralyzed by polio vaccine viruses in rebel-held Raqqa has the World Health Organization and UNICEF in talks with the Syrian government over whether an emergency vaccination effort can be mounted there.

The new case is the — part of a in Syria

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