Australia is gripped with grim news as diphtheria, the old, dangerous disease everyone thought was long gone, is back. After being off the radar for 50 years, cases in the remote Kimberley region of ...

Health authorities in the Northern Territory are offering additional diphtheria booster doses to Aboriginal children, select non-Aboriginal students and Department of Education staff working in remote ...

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

The humanitarian medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières in collaboration with the Borno State Ministry of Health, has completed a large-scale vaccination campaign against diphtheria targeting ...

Diphtheria was a common cause of death among children in the United States in the 1920s. A vaccine was introduced in the 1940s, and the illness has now been almost completely eradicated in the U.S.

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

The federal government has stepped in to address the largest diphtheria outbreak since records began, unveiling a ...

Adult diphtheria booster vaccines must be funded for Indigenous people on the National Immunisation Program, say Aboriginal ...

Health authorities in Western Australia's far north say they are battling disinformation and misconceptions amid a ...

Diphtheria outbreak in Kimberley: What’s happening? Per ABC News, diphtheria was pretty much wiped out in Australia thanks to routine vaccines. But late in 2025, a few cases popped up in Kimberley, ...