The World Health Organisation has declared a polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea and called for an "immediate ... children during a routine screening in Lae, a coastal city in the country's ...

SYDNEY — Papua New Guinea’s prime minister declared a state ... in the rioting in Port Moresby and seven were killed in Lae, in the north of the gold and copper-mining country, Australian ...

Environmental samples collected in Papua New Guinea’s two largest cities, Port Moresby and Lae, have detected type 2 poliomyelitis through wastewater testing in their sewage systems and ...

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 ...

A polio outbreak has been declared in Papua New Guinea, sparking concern about the disease’s spread in a country with low vaccination rates, health officials said. Poliovirus, most often spread ...

May 16 (UPI) --The Papua New Guinea National Department of Health announced ... in wastewater samples and in two healthy children in Lae, Morobe Province." The World Health Organization has ...

In subsequent testing, two children in Lae were found to have the poliovirus type 2 strain, according to the WHO representative in Papua New Guinea, Sevil Huseynova. The confirmation of community ...

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 ...