There’s a three-week wait on test results in Yuendumu, near Alice Springs, and locals say NT Health has dropped the ball on telling locals what to do if they test positive ...
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A rare diphtheria outbreak is spreading across the ditch, but are Kiwis at risk of the potentially life-threatening disease ...
Health minister Mark Butler says vaccines are being rushed into NT communities, with one suspected death ...
Most cases are in the Northern Territory with some also in Western Australia, South Australia and Queensland.
Health authorities are urging people to get vaccinated, as a potentially deadly infection spreads across four Australian ...
The federal government has stepped in to address the largest diphtheria outbreak since records began, unveiling a ...
Health authorities in the Northern Territory are offering additional diphtheria booster doses to Aboriginal children, select non-Aboriginal students and Department of Education staff working in remote ...
Remote Indigenous communities are bearing the brunt of the latest diphtheria outbreak. Inadequate housing may be one reason ...
Health officials in Australia said that testing showed a man's death in April was caused by diphtheria, the first such death ...
Somalia, Nigeria, Mali, Yemen … and Australia. Diphtheria hasn’t been seen in this country for many decades – now we’ve ...