Diseases

Free flu vaccines will not be extended beyond June in South Australia, despite calls for the jabs to be made available to everyone until the end of winter.

Monkeypox is not yet a global health emergency, the World Health Organisation has ruled, although director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says he is deeply concerned about

Rising flu and COVID-19 cases are placing the nation's hospitals under significant strain, according to the chief medical officer. Paul Kelly said winter

The World Health Organisation is set to decide whether to declare monkeypox a global health emergency, stirring criticism from leading African scientists who say it has been

Spain's health ministry has denied a report by regional counterparts that a case of locally acquired cholera had been detected for the first time in four decades, saying

Polio has been detected in sewage samples in the UK capital London - the first sign since the 1980s that the virus could be spreading in the country - but no cases have been

South Korea has reported its first two suspected cases of monkeypox virus infections in the country, Yonhap News Agency reports citing health authorities. One

More than 700,000 South Australians have had a flu vaccine this year with a program of free jabs boosting numbers in recent weeks. The state government is offering

The World Health Organisation will convene an emergency committee next week to assess whether the monkeypox outbreak represents a public health emergency of international

Australia has had its worst May on record when it comes to flu cases, prompting experts to warn this season will redefine what it means to be ready for the virus.

UK health officials say they cannot tell if the spread of monkeypox has peaked in the country as they announced another 45 cases, bringing the total in the disease's biggest-ever

Toiling on a construction site or in a mine apart can result in a deadly lung disease that a new parliamentary report is urging the NSW government to take seriously.

There have been more than 1000 monkeypox cases reported to the World Health Organisation in the current outbreak outside the countries in Africa where it more commonly spreads.

Canada has issued a monkeypox travel notice, advising visitors to more than two dozen countries, including Australia, Britain and the United States, to take precautions and

NSW has confirmed its fourth, and identified a probable fifth, case of monkeypox. Two men in their 30s recently returned from Europe, where they had travelled

A Victorian man has become the fifth monkeypox case detected in Australia after returning from the United Kingdom. The returned overseas traveller, aged in

A man in his 50s who recently returned to Sydney from Queensland is the second person to be diagnosed with monkeypox in NSW and the third in Australia. The

NSW has recorded its lowest quarterly number of HIV cases but health authorities remain concerned because testing rates have also declined. Chief Health Officer

People who have been in central Sydney are being warned to watch out for symptoms of legionnaires' disease after six cases were recorded in the past two weeks.

Food safety regulators in the United States and Canada are investigating a Hepatitis A outbreak potentially linked to tainted organic strawberries that has sickened 17 people