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Experts urge governments to reprioritise public health messaging amid fears the anti-vaccine lobby ‘has the floor’ on immunisation

Raina MacIntyre, professor of global biosecurity and one of Australia's leading COVID response experts, says COVID's origins are still not certain.

A leading epidemiologist says Australians must change they way they live to better deal with the ongoing threat from COVID-19 and other viral infections.

A leading epidemiologist says Australians must change they way they live to better deal with the ongoing threat from COVID-19 and other viral infections.

Back for its sixth year, the Sydney Opera House’s Antidote wants to start much-needed conversations about care, hope and our need to bring communities together

An unusual outbreak of monkeypox has now spread to at least 15 countries. Here's what we know about the disease, which is rarely seen outside of Africa.

Just as the country is learning to live with COVID, another virus has landed on Australian shores after a slow international spread in past weeks.

Australia is offering a fourth dose of Covid-19 vaccines to over 65s from next month, federal health authorities announced Friday, as a new Omicron strain races through the population. The top advisory group on vaccines approved the fourth shot for vulnerable groups: those aged over 65, indigenous people over 50,…

Face masks are now a fact of life. But even disposable masks require a few simple care steps to stay effective