{"id":9501,"date":"2025-05-21T08:16:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T13:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9501"},"modified":"2025-05-21T08:16:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T13:16:53","slug":"who-declares-polio-outbreak-in-papua-new-guinea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/05\/21\/who-declares-polio-outbreak-in-papua-new-guinea\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO declares polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cvg9men89yvo\">BBC<\/a> The World Health Organisation has declared a polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea and called for an &#8220;immediate&#8221; vaccination campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Samples of the highly infectious virus were found in two healthy children during a routine screening in Lae, a coastal city in the country&#8217;s north east.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Less than half of the country&#8217;s population are immunised against the potentially deadly disease, which is close to being wiped out but has recently resurfaced in some parts of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We have to do something about it and we have to do it immediately,&#8221; said Sevil Huseynova, WHO&#8217;s representative in Papua New Guinea, warning that the disease could spread beyond the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cvg9men89yvo\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC The World Health Organisation has declared a polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea and called for an &#8220;immediate&#8221; vaccination campaign. Samples of the highly infectious virus were found in two healthy children during a routine screening in Lae, a coastal city in the country&#8217;s north east. Less than half of the country&#8217;s population are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9502,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9501\/revisions\/9502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}