Papua New Guinea has declared a polio outbreak after vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 was found in stool samples from two ...

The World Health Organization has declared a polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea and is calling for a vaccination campaign.

Papua New Guinea reported the presence of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) in healthy children from Lae ...

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

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 ...

Two healthy children in the Papua New Guinea city of Lae have been diagnosed with polio, prompting an emergency vaccination ...

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

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday that circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) had been detected in stool specimens of two healthy children in Papua New Guinea on ...