AAP - 12-04-2023
Young children, older Australians and other vulnerable people are being urged to get vaccinated for COVID-19 and influenza amid fears a range of viruses could create a perfect
AAP - 28-02-2023
There are fears a "silent pandemic" of antimicrobial resistance could kill millions globally within decades, prompting a plea for greater action in Australia.
AAP - 07-01-2023
Health officials have sounded an alarm over a rise in rare COVID-mimicking bacterial infections that can cause disability and death. Cases of invasive meningococcal
AAP - 22-10-2022
Despite all the lessons of a global pandemic, almost one in five Australians admit they don't always wash their hands after visiting the toilet. Almost half
AAP - 25-05-2022
The World Health Organization does not believe the monkeypox outbreak outside of Africa requires mass vaccinations, as measures such as good hygiene and safe sexual behaviour
AAP - 14-05-2022
Relying on apps to distinguish between poisonous mushrooms and edible varieties could risk fatal consequences. As winter draws closer, cool and wet weather conditions
AAP - 14-04-2022
Victorians are being warned against consuming death cap and yellow-staining mushrooms as the poisonous varieties pop up across the state. Eating just one death
Health Insights - 30-09-2016
The widespread use of antimicrobials to treat a broad range of infections has been standard practice within both medical and veterinary settings since the first use of penicillin
Ellen Rosenfeld - 12-05-2015
For many months now we have watched West African nations struggling with the agony of ebola haemorrhagic fever, now termed ebola virus disease (EVD). The capacity of these
Mary Hickson - 12-05-2015
Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) is a bacterium that is the most common pathogen causing diarrhoea in hospitalised patients and residents of aged care facilities (1).
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