Two children have been diagnosed with polio in PNG. It's the first outbreak in the country since 2018, when an outbreak was eradicated the same year. The World Health Organization (WHO ...

During performances at the Festival of Pacific Arts over the past two weeks, the traditional clothing of delegates from Papua New Guinea left their upper bodies partially exposed. One could see ...

May 16 (UPI) --The Papua New Guinea National Department of Health announced early Friday that a polio outbreak has struck there. The nation's government said it is "stepping up its response after ...

The sheer numbers are enormous: Americans treasure almost 90 million dogs and 74 million cats, along with fish, reptiles, birds, hamsters, gerbils, rabbits and poultry. A full 88% of those owners ...

May 4-10 is Emergency Preparedness Week. While emergencies come in many forms, fire is one that many people in the area think of this time of year. It’s been just over two years since the Buck ...

Plus, Smith gets to take home one of Fifield's class gerbils this summer to keep. "He's really giving. He gave me a cage and a runner bowl for the gerbil, too," she said. He's known for being ...

Francis selected cardinals who he felt shared his sense of the church — that it should be less hierarchical and more pastoral — but they do not necessarily embrace his more inclusive view of ...

Brigadier Damian Hill, TS25 exercise director, said the Papua New Guinea Defence Force (PNGDF) will play host to a simulated aircraft crash with their Special Forces working alongside Australian ...

“He came across a paper where someone had taught hamsters or gerbils to detect explosives and said, ‘Well, if you could do it with hamsters or gerbils, I'm sure you can do it with rats ...

In a remote area of Papua New Guinea, the staff at Nazarene General Hospital serve relentlessly. The 134-bed facility is the only medical center in the area, which has a population roughly equal ...

Black smoke wafted from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel Wednesday afternoon, signalling that the cardinals sequestered within have not yet chosen Pope Francis’s successor. Thus concludes the ...

The variable pitohui, a poisonous bird, captured in a mist net on the outskirts of Wanang Village in Papua New Guinea in 2018. In the summer of 1989, Jack Dumbacher was a fresh-faced ornithologist ...