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

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on May 20 that the variant type 1 polio outbreak in Madagascar is now over. The ...

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

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

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

In an era that FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, MD, MPH, calls an "epidemic of distrust" toward health institutions, previously ...

Madagascar has successfully halted the transmission of variant poliovirus type 1, following recommendations from a rigorous, independent Outbreak Response Assessment (OBRA) to declare the outbreak ...

Australia’s closest neighbour is scrambling to control a polio outbreak, with Far North Queensland’s declining vaccination rates leaving the region vulnerable to the once “eradicated” disease.