Diseases
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Canada detects first presumptive human H5 bird flu case AAP - 11-11-2024
Canada has detected its first presumptive case of H5 bird flu in a person - a teenager in the western province of British Columbia - health officials say. The
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Deadly cough spreading like wildfire amid record cases AAP - 08-11-2024
Australia is in the grips of its worst whooping cough outbreak since the introduction of vaccines as people continue to fall behind on immunisations. More than
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Bird's the word as agriculture ministers tackle flu AAP - 01-11-2024
Australia cannot be complacent despite being the only continent currently without bird flu as its rapid spread remains a risk, federal Agriculture Minister Julie Collins says.
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Deadly E.coli outbreak linked to McDonald's burgers AAP - 23-10-2024
E.coli food poisoning linked to McDonald's burgers has sickened at least 49 people in 10 US states, including one person who died and 10 who were hospitalised, according
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Mpox cases in Australia surge past 1000 AAP - 18-10-2024
The mpox outbreak has reached its peak in Victoria in line with a national surge to more than 1000 cases in 2024, with some patients ending up in hospital.
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Rwanda's Marburg fever deaths rise to 11, source probed AAP - 04-10-2024
Marburg haemorrhagic fever has killed 11 people in Rwanda, health authorities say, as the country continues to investigate the source of an outbreak first traced among patients
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Marburg virus feared in Germany as two hospitalised AAP - 03-10-2024
Two people have been hospitalised with the suspected Marburg virus in Hamburg after at least one returned from treating patients with infectious diseases abroad, German authorities
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Rwanda confirms cases of Marburg viral disease AAP - 29-09-2024
Rwanda has confirmed its first cases of Marburg disease, a viral hemorrhagic fever that can cause death among some patients, the country's health ministry says.
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Local mpox cases surge after global emergency declared AAP - 27-09-2024
Mpox cases have surged across Australia, swelling from a handful to hundreds in the space of a few months. More than 600 cases have been notified to federal
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US to donate one million mpox vaccine doses to Africa AAP - 25-09-2024
The US will donate one million mpox vaccine doses and at least $US500 million ($A730 million) to African countries to support their response to the latest outbreak, a senior
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India reports first case of fast-spreading mpox variety AAP - 24-09-2024
India says an mpox case involving a man in the southern state of Kerala was from the fast-spreading clade 1b variety, marking South Asia's first recorded case from the
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UNICEF issues emergency tender to secure mpox vaccines AAP - 01-09-2024
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has issued an emergency tender to secure mpox vaccines for crisis-hit countries in collaboration with the Gavi vaccine alliance,
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Africa mpox outbreaks could be ended in six months AAP - 01-09-2024
The head of the World Health Organisation believes the ongoing mpox outbreaks in Africa might be stopped in the next six months and says the agency's first shipment of
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Mpox strain changing faster than expected AAP - 28-08-2024
Scientists studying the new mpox strain that has spread out of Democratic Republic of Congo say the virus is changing faster than expected, and often in areas where experts
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Fauci recovering from West Nile virus at home AAP - 25-08-2024
Former top US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci has spent time in hospital after being infected with West Nile virus and is recovering at home, a spokesperson has confirmed.
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Thailand says mpox case is more easily spread variant AAP - 23-08-2024
Thailand has confirmed an mpox case reported this week is the clade 1b strain of the virus, the second confirmed case of the variant outside of Africa. The
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More than a thousand new mpox cases hit Congo in a week AAP - 22-08-2024
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has reported more than a thousand new mpox cases in the last week as African health authorities plead for vaccines to help fight its "growing"
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Cholera outbreak in Sudan has killed at least 22 people AAP - 19-08-2024
Nearly two dozen people have died in a cholera outbreak in Sudan as the African nation reels from a 16-month conflict and devastating floods. Health Minister
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Africa public health body declares mpox emergency AAP - 14-08-2024
Africa's top public health body has declared what it termed a "public health emergency of continental security" over an outbreak of mpox that has spread from
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Plea to avoid panic as 'unusual' deadly outbreak grows AAP - 06-08-2024
An outbreak of legionnaires' disease in Victoria has grown to 71 cases including an elderly woman who died in hospital, but residents near the suspected source are urged
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