Polio in PNG: Health Expert Says 'No Cause for Panic' Despite 'Extremely Low' Childhood Vaccination Rates

Australia funding vaccines after polio find in PNG

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

Polio in PNG: Health expert says 'no cause for panic' despite 'extremely low' childhood vaccination rates

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

WHO says vaccine-derived poliovirus detected in Papua New Guinea

Poliomyelitis, a highly infectious virus, can invade the nervous system and cause paralysis and death in young children. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Polio Outbreak Alert: Detection in Papua New Guinea | Science-Environment

Polio Outbreak Alert: Detection in Papua New Guinea The World Health Organisation (WHO) announced on Tuesday that circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) was discovered in stool specimens of two children in Papua New Guinea on May 9.According to a statement from WHO, the identification of vaccine-derived or wild poliovirus in samples, even from healthy individuals, constitutes a serious public health concern.This occurrence has be…

WHO says polio outbreak in Madagascar is over

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WHO says vaccine-derived poliovirus detected in PNG

The World Health Organisation says it has detected a polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea, calling the vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 incident serious.