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 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 ...

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 ...

Over 20 people were shot dead in a tribal clash on Sunday in the remote highlands of Papua New Guinea ... street riots in Port Moresby and Lae. Papua New Guinea had previously said the United ...

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 ...

A tribal clash in Papua New Guinea’s remote highlands ... weeks after the street riots in Port Moresby and Lae. Papua New Guinea had previously said the United States and Australia were its ...

Papua New Guinea was dealing with the fallout Thursday ... while Acting Metropolitan Superintendent of Lae Central Command, James Luan, told CNN that four had died in Lae, the capital of Morobe ...

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 ...