During the past week, some 14 hepatitis A cases have been reported from several areas of Australia, with health officials from Queensland Health, Victoria, NSW and WA Health saying there is a link between...

Up to 110 people have been stricken with what appears to be salmonella food poisoning in a town south of Brisbane, Australia. The Metro South Public Health Unit has received multiple complaints from separate...

The Victoria Department of Health in Australia has been notified of two confirmed cases of measles in individuals not vaccinated for measles who became ill after attendance at an RMIT graduation ceremony...

The first dengue fever outbreak of 2015 in Far North Australia has been reported by Queensland Health officials as two cases of dengue had been confirmed in Cairns, while a third suspected case is being...

The Western Australia Department of Health issued a measles warning today for travelers on an Air Asia flight from Bali over the weekend after a family of two were infected on the vacation island. According...

Queensland Health is warning travelers on Jetstar Airlines flight JQ46 to be alert for symptoms of measles. The flight departed Denpasar for Brisbane on Wednesday night (15 October) and arrived Thursday...

Health officials in Kimberley, Western Australia, after detecting Australian bat lyssavirus (ABL) in several sick bats in Broome,  have extended the warning to Pilbara saying that bats there may also...

Written by Dr. Katherine E. Arden and Dr. Ian M. Mackay The outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) began in December 2013 in Guinea. It spread to Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria and Senegal. The last two...

Australian researchers have achieved ground-breaking results in a clinical trial using hookworms to reduce the symptoms of celiac disease. The results are also good news for sufferers of other inflammatory...

New South Wales (NSW) Health is urging members of the public to thoroughly cook pork products, particularly pork livers, after three recent notifications of Hepatitis E in NSW in people who have not traveled...