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

Polio has broken out before in Papua New Guinea, with the most recent incident happening in June of 2018, after a reported 20 ...

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

The World Health Organization says wild poliovirus type 2 was eradicated in 1999, but the deadly disease has been detected ...

The World Health Organisation said on Tuesday that circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) had been detected ...

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

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared a polio outbreak in the country, and called for an immediate vaccination ...

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

The World Health Organisation said on Tuesday that circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) had been detected ...

Pacific Minister Pat Conroy has said the investment would help polio vaccines reach as many as three million children in ...

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

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 ...