An ancient virus infecting residents across Australia's Northern Territory is leaving death and despair in its path, and doctors are now calling for greater efforts to stop the spread of infections.

New reports share that a biosecurity breach was discovered over at Queensland, Australia, where a laboratory lost 323 vials of known deadly live viruses, known for having high mortality rates. The ...

Thousands of residents in several high-rise apartments in Melbourne went into lockdown for at least five days Saturday, as officials struggle to control a virus outbreak in Australia's second biggest ...

New bat viruses detected in China Fears raised it could expand into Australia READ MORE: Outbreak of potentially deadly disease grows An alarming 20 new bat viruses have been detected in China, with ...

A potato disease known as mop-top virus has been detected in Australia for the first time and is ravaging crops on a farm in Tasmania’s northwest. Biosecurity Tasmania were alerted to the virus and ...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia reported a drop in new coronavirus cases on Friday, with a surge in the second most populated state Victoria appearing to have eased, although more than 10,000 people ...

A thief who broke into a zoo in Tasmania, Australia, may now be infected with a deadly monkey virus. A city official in Launceston said the intruder broke into a monkey enclosure in a city park on ...

A paper from a research team, which included mathematical modeling expertise from LSHTM and was led by the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Brisbane, has suggested that up to 750,000 ...