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With temperatures ramping up this week, Western Australians are being reminded about the risk of amoebic meningitis – a rare but deadly infection linked to warm, fresh water sources.
Amoebic...
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The Victoria Department of Health has reported the first identified case of Japanese encephalitis (JE) virus infection of this mosquito season in a Campaspe LGA resident.
Recent...
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An additional measles case has been reported in Victoria, Australia as officials say a returned overseas traveller from Thailand was confirmed.
This is the sixth measles case...
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The Victoria Department of Health in southern Australia in a health advisory earlier this month is reporting cases of Buruli ulcer are increasing. There have been 266 cases notified...
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The Victoria Department of Health reported three new measles cases have been identified in Victoria in returned overseas travelers. Two of these related cases were infectious...
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New Zealand Food Safety is advising consumers, especially those with chronic liver damage, the elderly and pregnant people to consider extra precautions if eating frozen berries to...
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Wide Bay residents who work with animals are being urged to get vaccinated against a bacterial disease that has been identified across the region.
There has been increase in confirmed...
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An individual in their in their 50s is the first confirmed measles case in New South Wales (NSW) since February 2020, according the health officials.
The patient acquired their infection...
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The first country-wide mass drug administration in the world for the treatment of scabies is happening in the Solomon Islands.
The World Scabies Program is spearheading the mass drug...
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An anti-parasitic drug will be rolled out on mass scale in the Solomon Islands to prevent scabies, a contagious, intensely itchy skin condition that affects a third of the nation’s...
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