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‘Isn’t that strange?’ scientist says as he shares different disease caused by BA.5

Sudan reported its first confirmed Monkeypox case, the country's health ministry said late on Sunday. A 16-year-old student was confirmed sick with the disease in West Darfur state, the ministry said in a statement posted on its Facebook page.

A traveller from Indonesia has been fined thousands of dollars after a detector dog caught them trying to sneak undeclared McDonald's into Australia.

A Darwin traveller has been fined thousands of dollars for not declaring fast food from Bali, as concerns grow about foot-and-mouth disease.

It's been a long wait for the return of cattle to the Ekka after two years of COVID-19 cancellations. But this year another virus is looming, and the show's organisers are taking no chances.

"I feel completely overwhelmed"

A world-first treatment from NZ researchers for Batten disease - a rare but lethal genetic disorder - is for the first time moving to human trials.

"While our life expectancy may be increasing, our healthspans – our time spent in good health – still remains much lower than expected"

No one studying polio knew more than Albert Sabin, the Polish-American scientist whose vaccine against the crippling disease has been used worldwide since 1959. Sabin’s oral vaccine provides lifelong immunity. It has one drawback, which Sabin, who died in 1993, fiercely disputed: In rare cases, the weakened live poliovirus in…