Diseases

The World Health Organisation says monkeypox constitutes a moderate risk to overall public health at global level after cases were reported in countries where the disease

Some prominent infectious disease experts are pushing for faster action from global health authorities to contain a growing monkeypox outbreak that has spread to at least

A World Health Organisation senior official says containing monkeypox in non-endemic countries is a priority and can be achieved through quick action. Monkeypox,

There's been a spike in the number of people being poisoned by eating wild mushrooms in NSW, with authorities warning ingesting the fungi can be fatal.

A second man has died in NSW from Japanese encephalitis in an outbreak that began earlier this year. The man in his 60s from Corowa, near the Victorian border,

State health authorities are warning people to be vigilant after two cases of monkeypox were confirmed in NSW and Victoria. The cases - a man in his 40s in

A Victorian medical research organisation will partner with Moderna to develop new vaccines for emerging and neglected infectious diseases. The Burnet Institute's

Four more cases of rare viral monkeypox infection have been diagnosed in England, health authorities say, taking the total confirmed cases since May 6 to seven.

More than 170 children with sudden onset hepatitis have been identified in the United Kingdom. An update from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) showed an

Flu cases are spiking in NSW with several outbreaks in schools as winter approaches and COVID-19 lingers. NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant said cases are

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US health officials say they are investigating 109 cases of severe hepatitis of unknown origin in children, including five reported deaths, updating a country-wide alert issued

The third Ebola patient in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo has died, the World Health Organisation says, the latest fatality in an outbreak first reported last month.

Health experts are warning of a renewed spread of seasonal flu after two years of COVID-19 restrictions left fertile ground for the potentially deadly bug to spread.

Australians now have cheaper access to treatments for breast cancer, spinal muscular atrophy and the painful inflammatory condition EoE. Eosinophilic oesophagitis

The UK Health Security Agency has identified 34 confirmed hepatitis cases in children since Monday, bringing the total number to 145 amid a series of unexplained cases among

The first known human case of H5 bird flu in the United States has appeared in a person in Colorado, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says.

China has recorded the first human infection with the H3N8 strain of bird flu, according to the country's health authority which says the risk of it spreading among people

A second Ebola patient has died in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organisation has announced, days after a fresh outbreak of the deadly disease

Medications rather than insect bites, pollen or food triggers are a factor in more than one in eight presentations of potentially fatal anaphylaxis, researchers say.