Outbreak
One of Australia's worst diphtheria outbreaks has highlighted a shortfall in health workers in remote communities as a multimillion-dollar package is rolled out to help contain the disease's spread.
A dip in vaccination rates has been blamed for one of Australia's worst diphtheria outbreaks as the rare respiratory disease continues to spread.
A public health expert has urged people to get tested and vaccinated as diphtheria spreads from the Northern Territory to Western Australia, Queensland and South Australia.
The diphtheria outbreak in the Northern Territory which has overwhelmingly impacted Aboriginal communities has caused at least one death, the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress reports.
Australia is spending $5 million towards vaccinations in Papua New Guinea after the declaration of a polio outbreak in its close northerly neighbour.
Papua New Guinea has reported a resurgence of polio 25 years after the World Health Organisation last declared the country free of the potentially deadly virus.
A Japanese edition of Barbed Wire and Cherry Blossoms by Wiradjuri author Dr Anita Heiss has been released. Its publication coincides with the 80th anniversary of the breakout on August 5, 1944 by Jap...
The rapid spread of a COVID-19 Omicron cluster in Western Australia's Pilbara region comes as no surprise, according to the chief executive of a local health service.
Moree's COVID outbreak has sent hundreds of Aboriginal people into isolation, but it's the town's Aboriginal organisations that are taking the lead on the multi-agency response to the emergency.
NSW Deputy Police Commissioner blocked a plan to protect First Nations communities against the COVID-19 outbreak. ABC News reported today that NSW Deputy Police Commissioner Gary Worboys swayed the st...
As cases of COVID-19 continue to increase in Far West and Western New South Wales, on-the-ground services are working overtime to support First Nations Peoples.
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