Infectious Diseases (Other)

Tim Stannard says he's had long COVID for four years and can no longer hold down a job. Experts say patients feel let down by the government's response to a parliamentary inquiry into the disease, calling it a "missed opportunity".

Cryptosporidiosis is so infectious that one person can infect an entire swimming pool of people in a single visit. Here's how the gastrointestinal disease spreads and what precautions we should take, writes Vincent Ho.

Health authorities have warned travellers on a flight from Melbourne to Adelaide to be alert for symptoms after a toddler has contracted measles.

Middle-aged Australians who think they are vaccinated against measles may not be correct, as health authorities warn of cases coming home with overseas travellers.

Hospitals have become a strange new battleground in the fight against COVID, with doctors and public health experts concerned that too many patients are catching the virus — and an alarming number are dying — as a result of inadequate infection control.

Cases of whooping cough are surging across Australia, with an infectious disease expert warning that the respiratory disease is "back with a vengeance".

Researchers say they have confirmed a theory that a flesh-eating bacteria that affected hundreds of Australians last year is being spread from infected possums to humans by mosquito bites.

As flooding threatens parts of northern Australia and the eastern seaboard, medical experts have issued another warning — a potential spike in mosquito-borne diseases. 

As school holidays come to an end and people return to work, Australians are reminded to take precautions against another "substantial" wave of COVID-19.

Health officials in Indonesia are carrying out a mass immunisation drive after 11 cases of polio were detected on the country's main island.

Respiratory syncytial virus gets noses running, but in the last few days it's also got tongues wagging — ever since it was revealed a new vaccine would soon be made available in Australia.

NSW has seen the highest level of COVID in a year with two variants being behind the bulk of cases, as the health department urges those infected with the virus to stay home.

Professor Catherine Bennett says a new variant of the novel coronavirus has reached Australian shores that's very transmissable.

JN.1 appears to be more transmissible than some previous variants and, with so many of us travelling and gathering with others right now, the conditions are right for the virus to spread.

A number of diseases and infections are more prevalent amid widespread flooding in the tropics.

A Kirby Institute report on sexually transmitted infections reveals five children died from congenital syphilis in Australia last year, with disease cases tripling over the past 10 years.

Internationally, countries such as the US are scaling up efforts to address long COVID but Australia continues to close its specialist clinics. Medical professionals in Australia and overseas say it is a move that needs an urgent rethink.

New COVID booster shots are now available in Australia. So who should get one, and will it protect against the virus in time for Christmas?

The country's aids council says the number of new infections has nearly doubled in one year.

The shortest distance from the outside world to your brain is up your nose. While this is fantastic for detecting odours, it can be deadly when dangerous microbes use this pathway, writes Dr Lynn Nazareth.

Six children from an Aboriginal community in Far North Queensland have been hospitalised as doctors grapple with a shortage of the preferred medication to treat the inflammatory disease.

There are at least 43 suspected cases of Ralstonia in Australia, and an elderly patient's death at a private hospital on the Sunshine Coast is also believed to be linked. Here's what you need to know.

A hold on stray and surrendered cats remains in place at four of RSPCA NSW's six animal shelters amid a vaccine shortage, while an inquiry probes the issue of overcrowding at pounds.

The WHO says Beijing has attributed a rise in flu-like illnesses to the lifting of COVID curbs, after the organisation had requested more data on the cases.

The Treidlia Auslepto vaccine, used to protect dogs against a strain of the bacterial disease leptospirosis, has been withdrawn from sale by the manufacturer after “adverse reactions”, including the death of one animal.