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Streetart – Paolo Psiko @ Jolanda di Savoia, Italy

Title: IL MULINO DEL PO Location: Gherardi (Jolanda di Savoia), Emilia-Romagna, Italy Artist: Paolo Psiko (Italy) For: Ferrara La Città Del Cinema …

Streetart – Paolo Psiko @ Jolanda di Savoia, Italy

yaskhan – c’est la poésie qui compte

Children In Mourning

Virgin shrouds
Mourning wombs
Innocence cut short
Parents' lap
Empty broken
Shoulders weary
Eyes weighed
Bullets strayed
Nameless assail
Hopes frail.

When bombs fly
And sirens cry
Children cannot defy
They wonder if they 
Will live to see
Another dawn
Play and run all day long
And they wonder 
What the fighting is all about?

Source: yaskhan – c’est la poésie qui compte

Mass vaccination campaign underway after 11 polio cases detected in Indonesia’s East Java province – ABC News

Meru Sheel, associate professor and epidemiologist at the University of Sydney School of Public Health, said the situation in Indonesia was concerning.

“It means that the virus is now probably actively circulating in many parts of the country,” she told the ABC.

Polio is a highly-contagious disease which spreads from person-to-person.

From October 2022 to February 2023, three cases of polio were detected in Aceh province and one case in West Java province.

“So clearly there has been something going on,” Professor Sheel said.

Given that there’s a lot of movement among the population, the risk of national spread of the disease in Indonesia is quite high, she added.

COVID disrupts vaccination rates

Immunisation disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic are believed to be a factor in the disease’s re-emergence.

Source: Mass vaccination campaign underway after 11 polio cases detected in Indonesia’s East Java province – ABC News