The Re-Emergence of Polio in Papua New Guinea Shows Global Eradication Remains Elusive – Famagusta Gazette

The re-emergence of polio in Papua New Guinea shows global eradication remains elusive – Famagusta Gazette

Michael Toole, Burnet Institute; Fredrick Charles, Burnet Institute, and Suman Majumdar, Burnet Institute Last week the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared a polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The highly infectious virus was found in two healthy, polio-vaccinated children who were screened following detection of the virus during routine wastewater sampling in Lae, PNG’s second largest city. Wastewater samples are also positive in the…

GPEI-A critical moment for global public health: Polio eradication at the 2025 World Health Assembly

Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly, 19 May – 27 May 2025 © WHO/Pierre Albouy Against a backdrop of shifting geopolitical dynamics, economic uncertainty and ongoing humanitarian emergencies, global public health is undergoing upheaval. As delegates gathered in Geneva this week for the 2025 World Health Assembly (WHA), the urgency of sustaining momentum in disease eradication efforts was clear. Among the many pressing issues discussed, polio era…