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Cryptosporidiosis outbreak: Second swimming pool drained after ill person attends lesson
A symptomatic person attended a swimming lesson last weekend.
Cryptosporidiosis outbreak numbers soar beyond yearly average
The region has had more cases recently than it normally has in a year.
‘Unbelievable pain’: Simpson announces shingles infection
'I feel as if I have a hedgehog taped to my face,' says Deputy Mayor Desley Simpson.
‘Almost entirely preventable’: Expert on US measles death
The death marks the first US measles fatality in nearly a decade.
‘Deteriorated really quickly’: Dai Henwood shares cancer update
'I've obviously got some tumour activity going on in my lungs.'
Cancer Society funds boost ovarian cancer detection research
The researchers aim to create early detection tests, improving survival rates.
‘Hell of a fight’: Retiree battles ACC after delayed terminal cancer diagnosis
He was turned down, then offered $19,732, which he said was an 'insult'.
‘Totally bizarre’: Kiwi woman puzzled by unexpected cholera diagnosis
Health officials say the non-toxigenic strain poses no public health risk.
The reason young women’s bodies are more prone to cancer
The hormone oestrogen is thought to play to a central role.
‘Promising’: Ozempic may protect against Alzheimer’s
New York Times: Could the drugs that upended diabetes and obesity benefit the brain?
‘You almost feel trapped’: Living with chronic lung disease
Aimee Carruthers, 41, relies on a 7kg oxygen tank due to a rare lung condition.
‘Incredibly distressing’: Doctor worries old disease is making NZ comeback
Painful bone growth disorder appears to making a mysterious resurgence among NZ children.
‘The doctors said he wouldn’t walk': Meningitis fighter defies odds
Maiaorere Turner's family now need $35,000 so he can safely get in and out of the house.
Govt invests $67m in Hawke's Bay Hospital upgrades
The radiology department will be upgraded, and a new cancer treatment machine added.
How RFK jnr's Samoa visit reignited vaccine controversy in confirmation hearing
Robert F. Kennedy jnr insists his Samoa trip was aimed at helping digitise health records.
Wetlands monitored near Otago Avian botulism outbreak
The majority of the dead birds collected in Otago were paradise shelduck.
Doomsday clock ticks closest ever to midnight
The clock symbolising how close humanity is now at 89 seconds to midnight.
Jo Wilson: I missed a cervical smear test – and it almost cost me my life
Telegraph: TV presenter shares how a missed smear test changed her life.
CIA says Covid ‘more likely’ to have leaked from lab
Virus 'likely' leaked from Chinese lab rather than being transmitted by animals, CIA says.
13 cases of whooping cough hit Tairāwhiti, baby hospitalised
Nationwide, 1232 cases were notified from October 19 to January 10.
‘Phenomenal’ teen cheerleader died of meningitis a week after starting dream job
'She got to live her dream for one week. It was so unfairly taken from her.'
Opinion: How to protect babies as whooping cough epidemic grows
OPINION: Why do we need to get serious about whooping cough?
'Day and night': Germany searches for source of foot-and-mouth outbreak
It is Germany’s first reported incident of FMD in more than three decades.
Baby with whooping cough dies over Christmas period
A family has lost their baby due to the highly infectious disease.
Arthritis symptoms, treatments and foods that can help
Telegraph: There is no cure for chronic joint pain, but it can be made more bearable.
'Mission accomplished': Author Ron Murray dies three days after receiving copies of final book
Ron Murray's wife Jill described him as a 'man of many talents'.
Aussie scientists trial mosquitoes with ‘toxic’ semen to fight disease
Female flies that bred with 'toxic' males had a significantly reduced lifespan.