Diseases

The health minister in the Democratic Republic of Congo says the government is on alert over a mystery flu-like disease that in recent weeks has killed dozens of people, nearly

Authorities are grappling with a significant surge in Queensland whooping cough cases, as vaccination rates in pregnant women drop. Around 12,500 infections

Canada's public health agency has confirmed the country's first case of clade I mpox in a person in Manitoba. The Public Health Agency of Canada said

With chronic kidney disease projected to be the fifth leading cause of death worldwide by 2050, advocates are calling for radical action to end Australia's dependence

Bangladesh is battling its worst outbreak of dengue in years, with more than 400 deaths as rising temperatures and a longer monsoon season drive a surge in infections, leaving

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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.