The Vietnamese Department of Preventive Medicine reported today (computer translated) on a case of Zika virus infection in an Australian tourist that  traveled to Ho Chi Minh City, Lam Dong Province in...

The final report into the human metapneumovirus (hMPV) outbreak at Herberton Hospital has found Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service (CHHHS) responded promptly and appropriately to the issue. The...

Australian health officials are investigating four people infected with Legionnaires’ disease who all spent time in Sydney’s Central Business District (CBD). City of Sydney and public health units...

Health officials in Townsville, Queensland, Australia have confirmed the first locally acquired case of dengue fever, the Townsville Hospital and Health Service reported earlier this week. Local media...

The Department of Health & Human Services has been notified of a further five cases of measles, following an outbreak in Brunswick. The five new cases takes the outbreak tally to nine. The five are...

Health officials in Queensland, Australia have reported two travel associated Zika cases in women during the past week. On Saturday, a woman who returned to Queensland from El Salvador became the state’s first...

Queensland will boost measures to combat mosquito breeds responsible for the spread of Zika virus and Dengue fever. Minister for Health and Ambulance Service Cameron Dick announced the measures following...

Human metapneumovirus (hMPV) was first described by van den Hoogen et al in 2001.[1] It had been isolated from young children with respiratory tract disease and it was found, by studying old sera, that...

Western Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD) is advising the public to be alert to measles symptoms after an adult was diagnosed with the highly infectious disease in western Sydney this week. The patient,...

Just days after the broadcast of the “Out of the Water” on ABC’s Australian Story, which told the family tragedy of Jodi and Laine Keough and the loss of their son, Lincoln Cash Keough...