Hundreds of Australians staying in popular holiday spots across Victoria are being struck down by a rare and debilitating mosquito-borne disease. Ross River fever cases have surged over the past few months across East Gippsland, Greater Geelong and the Surf Coast, as
A little boy with an ‘infectious smile’ is fighting for his life with a heart condition that affects just one in 400,000 children, and that killed his brother at the age of eight months. Nickolas Kakias and Elizabeth Miroforidis were heartbroken when
A summer third wave: it’s the nightmare scenario we all are hoping won’t happen when Britain opens up for business on June 21. But predictions of surging Covid-19 infection rates by the Government’s scientific advisers would suggest it was almost inevitable. According to
A fit, avid sailor died just weeks after mysterious marks began appearing on her body with no clue that it was a rare and fatal disease. Sydney woman Marcia Ferguson-Roa, 59, developed a persistent dry cough when she started to feel more
Chinese health officials knew Wuhan’s Huanan Seafood Market was a disease risk for years before the Covid pandemic started there, an Australian scientist claims. Professor Eddie Holmes, a virologist at the University of Sydney, said he was taken on a tour of
Obesity ‘is WORSE than smoking’: Weight problems cause more deaths from heart conditions than puffing tobacco, study suggests Are about 31,000 avoidable deaths from heart disease due to obesity each year By comparison, there are around 21,000 deaths caused by smoking Two
Young woman, 21, fights for her life after becoming infected with meningococcal disease By Alana Mazzoni For Daily Mail Australia Published: 01:58 EDT, 12 April 2021 | Updated: 01:58 EDT, 12 April 2021 A 21-year-old woman is fighting for her life after
Young mother who helped raise $50,000 so cancer-surviving couple could get married is now struggling to pay for her own treatment after being diagnosed with a stage four tumour – as she shares the crucial symptoms she missed Megy Gough, 31, was
3,000 Britons killed by Covid caught on wards: More than a fifth of victims in some English hospitals contracted disease while being treated for something else Total of 3,264 who contracted Covid in hospital have died since March last year University Hospitals
Just for a moment, imagine that you were about to be diagnosed with a terminal disease — and you could choose which one to have. Without the slightest hesitation, I’d opt for motor neurone disease. It’s often described as the world’s cruellest