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

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

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

The World Health Ogranization says wild poliovirus type 2 was eradicated in 1999, but the deadly disease has 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 has declared a polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea and is calling for a vaccination campaign.

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

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

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

A health worker administers the polio vaccine to a child. The Papua New Guinea National Department of Health announced that a polio outbreak has struck there. File Photo by Hossein Fatemi/UPI ...

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