Health officials have warned people in recently flooded areas of the country to protect against mosquito-borne diseases after ...

A potentially deadly mosquito borne virus has been detected in Brisbane for the first time. Health experts raised the alarm ...

Japanese encephalitis spreads via mosquitoes. It has been detected in Brisbane’s eastern suburbs and claimed two lives in NSW ...

A man in his 70s, who is believed to have contracted the virus while holidaying in the Murrumbidgee region, died in hospital on March 6, NSW Health said. He had been receiving car ...

A man has died after contracting Japanese encephalitis while on holiday in southern NSW – the second death claimed by the ...

A potentially deadly virus was detected for the first time in Queensland’s capital as the state health authority issued ...

While some parts of southeast Queensland and northern New South Wales are still on alert for flooding, others are starting ...

Twenty years have gone by since Chris Low, 40, got dengue fever. What scares him is he can still “feel” and remember the ...

WA Health is warning the community that a new case of encephalitis caused by a mosquito-borne flavivirus has been reported in the Pilbara, suspected ...

Health authorities in Townsville are urging people to take precautions following a rare diphtheria diagnosis and a growing ...

The disease has no vaccine, cure or specific treatment and symptoms can include sore muscles, skin rashes, fever, fatigue and headaches, lasting for weeks to months. Ross River virus (RRV) was ...