Don't miss out on the headlines from Townsville. Followed categories will be added to My News. Townsville Public Health Unit director Dr Steven Donohue has revealed a resident was also being ...

Queensland Health staff in Townsville are treating an elderly man with dengue fever and a middle-aged man with Japanese encephalitis (JEV). The dengue case is Townsville's first breakthrough case ...

This whooping cough epidemic might be the biggest, ugliest and most challenging in New Zealand's history. Photo / 123RF Wanting to help children was one of the main reasons I became an ...

Victoria's health department is urging people in the state's north to remain vigilant against mosquitoes, following recent detections of Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV). JEV is a rare virus that ...

IMAGE: A faculty member of the Gurukul School Of Art in Mumbai creates a painting on the human metapneumovirus epidemic in China, January 6, 2025. Photograph: ANI Photo The sudden detection of new ...

A global stockpile created by the WHO The study therefore confirms the protection provided by two doses of this vaccine, even during an epidemic, and the reduction in the incidence of the disease.

LUCKNOW, India (AP)- India's government sent thousands of ineffective vaccines to a northern Indian state, halting a planned immunization drive against a deadly outbreak of Japanese encephalitis that ...

While experimental seizures induced by chemoconvulsants or electrical stimulation transiently enhance neurogenesis, the effects of encephalitis and the resultant virus-induced seizures remain ...

Cameron Webb and the Department of Medical Entomology, NSW Health Pathology and University of Sydney, have been engaged by a wide range of insect repellent and insecticide manufacturers to provide ...

As many as two billion people suffer from it — including me. Can science finally bring us relief? Credit...Marcus Schaefer for The New York Times Supported by By Jennifer Kahn Jennifer Kahn is a ...