Health minister Mark Butler says vaccines are being rushed into NT communities, with one suspected death ...

Health authorities are urging people to get vaccinated, as a potentially deadly infection spreads across four Australian states. Diphtheria is a serious infection caused by the toxin-producing ...

As diphtheria spreads across four different Australian jurisdictions in the largest outbreak since records began, public health messaging in the NT — the region most impacted by the serious disease — ...

Rapid vaccination could stem the spread of the potentially deadly diphtheria outbreak, but the government's response has been criticised as being too slow.

Most cases are in the Northern Territory with some also in Western Australia, South Australia and Queensland.

Diphtheria was once one of Australia’s most feared childhood infections, killing thousands of children before vaccines were available. Then for decades, it became so rare most doctors never saw a case ...

Vaccine misinformation, nurse and doctor shortages and crowded living arrangements may be behind soaring rates of diphtheria in remote Indigenous communities in Australia ...

Falsehoods about diphtheria are spreading online as a worsening outbreak of the disease affects Indigenous communities.

Health authorities are urging Australians to check vaccinations as diphtheria cases spread across four regions. Almost all reported diphtheria cases have involved Indigenous Australians, authorities ...

The Northern Territory is experiencing an unprecedented wave of rare and serious diseases which have already claimed the lives of at least two people.

An unvaccinated preschooler from Ostrava died of diphtheria, prompting concern over parents delaying children’s scheduled ...

Australia on Tuesday confirmed its first diphtheria death as the country raced to contain the worst outbreak of the bacterial ...