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    Tag: Zoology

    Company’s plan to sell genetically modified mosquitoes to fight dengue fever bitten by controversy

    March 24, 2025

    A British company’s plan to sell genetically modified mosquitoes to curb dengue fever in Australia has come under fire from a local expert. With funding…

    How a tick bite on a scrotum caused a two-month diagnostic dilemma: case

    March 20, 2025

    A tick bite on a US man’s scrotum led doctors down a diagnostic rabbit hole that eventually resulted in the second human diagnosis of babesiosis…

    Buruli ulcer

    Add Buruli ulcer to nationally notifiable disease list, experts say in updated guidance

    February 25, 2025

    Buruli ulcer should be a nationally notifiable disease amid increasing cases and spread to non-endemic parts of Australia, according to the authors of new management…

    Scientists puzzled after human JEV cases emerge in two states

    January 21, 2025

    The first human case of Japanese encephalitis has been reported in Australia, 18 months after the virus was declared not a major health threat. The…

    First paediatric case of bird flu reported in the US

    November 28, 2024

    Health authorities have reported the first known US case of H5N1 avian influenza in a child. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…

    My most memorable day as a doctor? ‘I couldn’t quite picture Dr Mark Killingback as a fallible human being’

    October 17, 2024

    As part of AusDoc’s 40th anniversary, this week we are publishing stories by readers about their most memorable day as a doctor. We have had…

    Medical Must-See: Unusual housemate leads to infection and aortic valve replacement

    September 27, 2024

    Even on Airbnb, most guests will not cause as much drama as this patient’s unusual lodger. The 49-year-old biologist presented to doctors in the Democratic…

    Persistent headache and fever in a globe-trotting chef

    July 27, 2024

    Mai, a 51-year-old Thai chef and restaurant owner, presents with a five-day history of headache associated with fever, lethargy, nausea and vomiting. Two days prior,…

    ‘Why did it disappear?’ JEV outbreak still shrouded in mystery as expert warns it could return

    May 29, 2024

    In June 2023, Chief Medical Officer Professor Paul Kelly declared the end of a national emergency response for an unpredictable and deadly viral disease. You…

    Brain infarction traced to wasp sting to the face in unusual case

    April 29, 2024

    A man stung by a wasp had to contend not only with anaphylaxis but also an unusual thalamic infarction, doctors in India report. The team…

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