The Department of Health is warning people who have had diarrhoea not to enter any swimming pool, water spray park or other aquatic facility for at ...

WA Health has issued a major health warning over cryptosporidiosis which has spread via swimming pools, childcare centres and ...

WA Health has recorded a “significant increase” in cryptosporidiosis, an illness caused by a microscopic parasite called ...

Farmers have been urged to check their livestock for cryptosporidiosis and carry out routine testing and vaccination to keep ...

An urgent health warning has been issued for those in Victoria, Australia after a surge in cases of the highly infectious disease cryptosporidiosis. The parasitic infection presents as ...

Cases of cryptosporidiosis usually increase during periods of warm weather. The disease is spread through physical contact with an infected person or when accidently contaminated water is ...

Professor and interim head of pathobiology Mark Kuhlenschmidt is part of a team that will develop a new system to study a parasite, Cryptosporidium, which causes a diarrheal disease in humans.

Farmers have been urged to check their livestock for cryptosporidiosis and carry out routine testing and vaccination to keep the disease at bay. It remains one of the most common diagnoses in ...