Media releases

Poisonous Death Cap mushrooms have started growing in Victoria following widespread heavy rain last weekend...

The Department of Health & Human Services has lifted the closure orders imposed on a Dandenong South commercial caterer in February...

There have been additional unrelated cases of measles in persons who may have been infectious whilst attending multiple public areas across metropolitan Melbourne...

Please see attached the CHO Alert in relation to a case of recently diagnosed measles and a number of exposure sites around Melbourne. The case, a man in his late teens, remains isolated and is...

Please see attached the CHO Alert in relation to a case of recently diagnosed measles and a number of exposure sites around Melbourne. The case, a woman in her 40s, remains isolated and is being...

Highly respected clinician Dr Brett Sutton has been appointed Victoria's Chief Health Officer...

Victoria's Chief Health Officer is urging Victorians to check their homes for eggs produced by Bridgewater Poultry following the detection of a particular strain of Salmonella...

Health authorities have closed a Dandenong South commercial caterer while they investigate the source of a case of listeriosis...

There has been an additional unrelated case of measles in a returned overseas traveller who may have been infectious whilst in multiple public areas in the Melbourne Central Business District between...

With more than 340 notified cases of Buruli ulcer in Victoria last year, researchers involved in the Beating Buruli in Victoria project are now intensifying their search for answers around the...