Researchers say understanding how Zika virus spreads through the human placenta and reaches the fetus is critical to prevent or control the infection.

Infection with Zika virus in pregnancy can lead to neurological disorders, fetal abnormalities and fetal death. Until now, how the virus manages to cross the placenta, which nurtures the developing ...

In an effort to curb the increase in dengue cases in Quezon City, local authorities in Barangay Old Balara have begun removing old tires from rooftops — common mosquito breeding grounds — and ...

An elderly person has died from the serious infectious disease, melioidosis, that can be contracted from contaminated water, ...

Mosquitoes cause around a million deaths per year. So, scientists are coming up with genetic engineering techniques that ...

Mould, flood damage and a potentially deadly disease lurk in the soil in northern Queensland, which also faces a possible ...

A cyclone may soon loom on the horizon for a flood-hit region where multiple people have died in recent weeks from a deadly ...

Infection with Zika virus in pregnancy can lead to neurological disorders, fetal abnormalities and fetal death. Until now, how the virus manages to ...

North Queensland has recorded three more deaths from melioidosis on top of four in the state's far north, while health ...

Authorities are concerned about the death toll caused by a disease linked with heavy rain, with the number of cases rising in ...