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

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

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 Ogranization says wild poliovirus type 2 was eradicated in 1999, but the deadly disease has been detected ...

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

Papua New Guinea has declared a polio outbreak after vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 was found in stool samples from two ...

However, Curtin University's international health professor says when children are not vaccinated "then it's a problem".

The World Health Organization has declared a polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea and is calling for a vaccination campaign.

The situation is “serious but manageable,” the country’s top health official said. View on euronews ...

Pacific Minister Pat Conroy has said the investment would help polio vaccines reach as many as three million children in ...

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

A polio outbreak has been declared in Papua New Guinea, sparking concern about the disease's spread in a country with low ...