AAP - 02-11-2022

Heavy rainfall is set to ease in the coming days as emergency services and volunteers around Victoria fight to contain flood damage and assist people in need.

AAP - 02-11-2022

The monkeypox outbreak continues to represent a global health emergency, which is the World Health Organisation's highest level of alert, the United Nations agency's

AAP - 01-11-2022

The United Kingdom government says all poultry and captive birds in England will legally be required to be kept indoors from November 7 as part of measures to tackle the country's

AAP - 25-10-2022

Uganda has reported nine more Ebola cases in the capital Kampala, bringing the total number of known infections to 14 in the last two days, the health minister says.

AAP - 20-10-2022

The World Health Organization and its partners are recommending that countries temporarily switch to using a single dose of the cholera vaccine instead of two due to a supply

AAP - 19-10-2022

Mailah Hosteng was once an avid world traveller, but that all changed after suffering kidney failure. She now needs kidney dialysis three times a week and the

AAP - 16-10-2022

Ugandan authorities have imposed a travel lockdown on two Ebola-hit districts as part of efforts to stop the spread of the contagious disease. The measures announced

AAP - 15-10-2022

South Australia will increase access to a vaccine for the Japanese encephalitis virus amid the growing risk of the mosquito-borne disease over summer. The expanded

AAP - 13-10-2022

Civil unrest is making it harder to contain a new outbreak of cholera in Haiti just as other diseases threaten to ignite new health crises, the Pan American Health Organisation

AAP - 27-09-2022

Health Minister Mark Butler says the number of monkeypox infections in Australia is stabilising. The comments follow Victorian authorities declaring the state's