Health

An Ebola virus outbreak in Congo and Uganda has caused over 500 suspected cases and more than 130 deaths, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.

A 15-year-old girl has been ordered to undergo lifesaving cancer treatment against her wishes after the hospital recommending the therapy took her to court. 

An American has tested positive for Ebola as the World Health Organisation raises the alarm over the ‘scale and speed’ of the outbreak.

An outbreak of a potentially deadly respiratory disease has spread across three States amid fears a life has been claimed in an outback community.

More than 100 people have died from an outbreak of a rare Ebola variant, spurring grave international health warnings.

‘Our results are concerning because it shows these products, with the outward appearance of a legal product, are being sold to unsuspecting customers.’

The World Health Organisation has declared a ‘public health emergency of international concern’ amid an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which has now spread across borders.

The World Health Organisation has declared the rapid spread of a deadly virus a global health emergency.

The six passengers on-board the cruise ship exposed to the deadly hantavirus have had their test results returned as they remain in a quarantine facility in Western Australia.

The last person to die from the disease was an unvaccinated adult back in 2018.

The Government has revealed that the flight crew who helped transfer the six passengers on a Hantavirus-stricken cruise ship to Australia might not quarantine.

Studies suggest the disease is most contagious when people are carrying a lot of virus, perhaps just as they are starting to feel sick.

Authorities say more hantavirus cases are expected ​from the cluster linked to a cruise ship, but stressed it does not pose a pandemic threat.

Six passengers from the Hantavirus-stricken MV Hondius will board a flight bound for Australia this evening after the Albanese Government secured a plane and flight crew willing to quarantine in Perth.

Families in one Australian state could save up to $1200 on healthcare as authorities seek to ‘meet people where they are’.