Prabowo Subianto first made his name as an Indonesian military leader trying to crush East Timor’s push for independence.

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 ...

Papua New Guinea's acting deputy secretary for public health is appealing ... The BBC reported samples were also found in two healthy children during a routine screening in Lae. The government's ...

Last week the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea (PNG ... virus during routine wastewater sampling in Lae, PNG's second largest city.

Papua New Guinea is experiencing a polio outbreak that ... Sewage testing confirmed the virus was circulating in Lae, its second-largest city. Polio is a highly infectious disease that mostly ...

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 ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has expressed deep concern and says neighbouring countries are at risk as it declares an outbreak of polio virus in Papua New Guinea. Community transmission of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Papua New Guinea has raised the alarm over a polio outbreak in Port Moresby and Lae after samples of the virus were found in wastewater and cases confirmed in two healthy children. The PNG ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed on Thursday that polio was detected in Papua New Guinea (PNG) from a wastewater sample in the city of Lae and an environmental sample in the nation's ...