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    Tag: Infectious diseases

    Pick the perilous pathogen at play in this febrile patient

    December 2, 2023

    Ned, a 52-year-old scientist, requests a telehealth consultation. He reports that, for the past few days, he has had generalised myalgia, headaches, chills and has…

    Bacteriophage renaissance: Could ‘hungry’ viruses save us from antibiotic resistance?

    December 1, 2023

    “Long before mammals evolved, bacteria and viruses were fighting it out on this planet. “Some viruses adapted to live quietly in bacteria. “But a lot…

    Australia needs an ‘urgent reset’ to boost flagging adult vaccination rates

    November 27, 2023

    Australia needs a national plan to increase adult vaccination uptake, in light of “plummeting” rates against COVID-19, shingles and influenza, a leading think tank says. Using Australian…

    Why so blue? A GP remembers a rare diagnosis from 1979 that was ‘just so weird’

    November 27, 2023

    It was 1979 when Dr Michael Tayar, then a senior resident at Canberra Hospital, encountered a middle-aged patient who looked “deeply cyanotic” around her face…

    ‘Nothing unusual or novel’: WHO responds to respiratory illness clusters in China

    November 24, 2023

    The WHO is hosing down fears of another global respiratory illness outbreak following reports of mysterious pneumonia clusters in children in northern China. On Thursday,…

    Timing ‘critical’ for chronic cough management: updated guidance

    November 21, 2023

    Kids with chronic cough and protracted bacterial bronchitis should be treated with antibiotics for up to four weeks, according to updated Australian guidance published this…

    GP dies after contracting fungal infection post-transplant

    November 16, 2023

    A GP who contracted a fungal infection in hospital after a heart transplant has died, leaving his family searching for answers. Dr Muhammad Hussain, 55,…

    Infectious diseases doctor warns coming pertussis outbreak a ‘sleeping bear’

    November 9, 2023

    A leading infectious diseases paediatrician says an outbreak of pertussis is on the horizon and could infect tens of thousands of Australians going into the…

    GPs ‘fed up’ as Shingrix demand outstrips supply

    November 8, 2023

    GPs say they have not received enough stock of recombinant herpes zoster vaccine Shingrix to meet patient demand after it was listed on the National…

    Medical Must-See: Aussie woman’s rare ‘black fungus’ bowel infection

    October 27, 2023

    It was a lucky, albeit long and arduous, escape for a 63-year-old woman in Adelaide after she became one of only seven cases of gastrointestinal…

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