Queensland travellers are being urged to consult their doctors and avoid bats when heading overseas, as an international outbreak of one of the deadliest bat-borne viruses grows.

Queensland is bracing for a record-breaking flu season, with a Mater Hospital professor urging pregnant women and parents of young children to get vaccinated before the virus explodes. With flu cases ...

New strategies may be needed to protect infants older than six months against the highly infectious Respiratory Syncytial Virus or RSV, new University of Queensland research has found. The study ...