Polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea - World Health Organization announcement
- Regular tests were carried out in the coastal city of Leh, located in the northeast of Papua New Guinea. At that time, samples taken from both healthy children were found to contain the most deadly polio virus.
- Papua New Guinea shares a border with the Indonesian province of Papua, and it is said that the currently detected virus and the virus circulating in Indonesia are genetically similar.
- This country's effort is said to be supported by the World Health Organization, the UN Children's Agency and the Australian government. In this, it is reported that about 3.5 million people will benefit from the vaccination of children under the age of 10 living in Papua New Guinea.
- Earlier, according to data from the World Health Organization, types 2 and 3 of the wild polio virus were completely eradicated in 1999 and 2020. It is noteworthy that based on studies conducted in 2022, only two countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan, have been affected by type 1 viruses.
