Diseases

Heavy rainfall and flooding has created prime breeding conditions for mosquitoes in Victoria, prompting authorities to issue a warning about serious diseases the insects carry.

Victoria has recorded three new confirmed cases of measles in returned overseas travellers. The cases are all within one family, with two people infectious

An Ebola case has been confirmed in Jinja in eastern Uganda, the first time the outbreak has spread to a new region of the country from central Uganda where cases have been

Heavy rainfall is set to ease in the coming days as emergency services and volunteers around Victoria fight to contain flood damage and assist people in need.

The monkeypox outbreak continues to represent a global health emergency, which is the World Health Organisation's highest level of alert, the United Nations agency's

The United Kingdom government says all poultry and captive birds in England will legally be required to be kept indoors from November 7 as part of measures to tackle the country's

Uganda has reported nine more Ebola cases in the capital Kampala, bringing the total number of known infections to 14 in the last two days, the health minister says.

The World Health Organization and its partners are recommending that countries temporarily switch to using a single dose of the cholera vaccine instead of two due to a supply

Mailah Hosteng was once an avid world traveller, but that all changed after suffering kidney failure. She now needs kidney dialysis three times a week and the

Ugandan authorities have imposed a travel lockdown on two Ebola-hit districts as part of efforts to stop the spread of the contagious disease. The measures

South Australia will increase access to a vaccine for the Japanese encephalitis virus amid the growing risk of the mosquito-borne disease over summer. The expanded

Civil unrest is making it harder to contain a new outbreak of cholera in Haiti just as other diseases threaten to ignite new health crises, the Pan American Health Organisation

Health Minister Mark Butler says the number of monkeypox infections in Australia is stabilising. The comments follow Victorian authorities declaring the state's

Three more Ebola patients have died in Uganda, the health ministry says, bringing the total death toll to four, days after authorities confirmed an outbreak of a strain of

The number of Victorians using voluntary assisted dying has increased by about one third. There were 401 people who used the procedure to end their lives between

A case of measles has been diagnosed in NSW, the first in more than two-and-a-half years. NSW Health says a person in their 50s acquired the highly contagious

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has declared a disaster emergency in a bid to accelerate efforts to vaccinate residents against polio after the virus was detected in wastewater

The United Kingdom is following the United States and European Union in making the most of limited supply of the monkeypox vaccine by administering smaller doses of the shot,

The number of Australians receiving kidney replacement therapy has more than doubled over the past two decades, new data shows. Kidney replacement therapy numbers

A NSW resident has been infected with monkeypox in their home state. The majority of cases so far have been acquired overseas but the new transmission has prompted