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. Advt The confirmation of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lasting two-weeks from April 14 to April 25, this is the fifth iteration of Tamiok Strike and training will occur across multiple locations within Papua New Guinea, to include Port Moresby ...

Sydney (AFP) – Papua New Guinea will "immediately" lift a ban on forest carbon credit schemes, the Pacific nation's climate minister told AFP on Thursday, opening up its vast wilderness to ...

The shallow quake was forecast to produce tsunami waves of one to three metres. A strong 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck Saturday morning off the coast of Papua New Guinea's New Britain Island ...

The Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea has ordered a recall of parliament on April 8 ... “Our government have consulted our coalition partners as well as the rank and file of Pangu Pati; they are all ...