The World Health Organisation has declared a polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea and called for an "immediate" vaccination ...

The World Health Organisation said on Tuesday that circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) had been detected ...

Polio has broken out before in Papua New Guinea, with the most recent incident happening in June of 2018, after a reported 20 ...

The World Health Organization says the PNG outbreak is linked to strains circulating in Indonesia, posing a serious risk to ...

The World Health Organization says wild poliovirus type 2 was eradicated in 1999, but the deadly disease has been detected ...

Papua New Guinea reported the presence of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) in healthy children from Lae ...

Morobe Governor Luther Wenge has publicly called on the Japanese government and Toyota to set up a Toyota vehicle assembly ...

This outbreak is a timely reminder that the last mile in the global eradication of polio remains elusive. As we emerge from a ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared a polio outbreak in the country, and called for an immediate vaccination ...

Two healthy children in the Papua New Guinea city of Lae have been diagnosed with polio, prompting an emergency vaccination ...

Less than half of the country's population are immunised against polio, a highly infectious disease The World Health Organisation has declared a polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea and called for ...

This is the first polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea since 2018, when an outbreak was reported in the same area as the new detections, Lae city in Morobe province. Vaccination protects against all ...