INFECTION

DARMSTADT, Germany (Reuters Life!) - A German pop singer who confessed to knowingly exposing two men to the risk of HIV after finding out she had the virus herself was convicted by a court Thursday of grievous bodily harm.

As many as hundreds of WA patients who had received treatments from a number of regional hospitals in Northwest of WA breathe a sigh of relief as they have been cleared of any serious infections including HIV and hepatitis following the breach of infection control measures by an anaesthetist.

Health authorities revealed on Thursday that there are three Australians infected with the superbug or bacteria resistant to antibiotics.

Elderly residents of nursing homes in SA are at risk of contracting the highly deadly rotavirus.

Canadian researchers have found that people with more tattoos have higher risk of contracting hepatitis C and other blood-borne diseases.

A test of an anti-HIV vaginal gel among South African women showed that it can protect them from infection, researchers bared during the 18th International AIDS Conference in Vienna on Tuesday.

A man who died Wednesday possibly from Lyme disease will be autopsied on orders of the Supreme Court to determine if the bacterial infection that affects the brain is the cause of his death.

Hospitals are now plagued by another source of hospital-acquired infection, putting health workers and patients at risk, says British researchers.

A doctor who failed to properly clean surgical equipment has now led 450 patients at WA hospitals being at risk of serious viruses, including HIV and hepatitis as health authorities reported.

Australian health authorities adviced people not to eat raw slugs, following the incident of a 21-year-old man who was reported to devour a raw gastropod in a dare game, and as a result had been critically ill with a rare type of meningitis.

The hepatitis C scandal in Victoria triggers more controversy as threats of legal actions against the state's Medical Practitioners Board, a clinic and a doctor multiplies.

A bacterium that causes ulcers and cancers of the stomach seems to have a beneficial side - it significantly decreases the risk of one specific type of oesophageal cancer - reveals an Australian study.

Following a doctor's breach of infection control protocols, it was estimated hundreds of patients in northwest of Western Australia may have been exposed to diseases such as HIV and hepatitis.

Doctor malpractice exposed hundreds of patients to infectious diseases such as Hepatitis B, C and HIV

A computerised diagnostic model developed by a group of specialists in Australia have shown to be more accurate than a doctor's clinical judgement.

Australian health officers said an anesthetist at a Melbourne clinic might have deliberately infected at least 12 women who had abortions there with Hepatitis C.

With a case of young woman in WA infected with the pandemic virus, Australia has recorded its first major case of swine flu infection for the year.

There is an alarming rise of gonorrhoea cases in the NSW port city of Newcastle, health authorities warned. More than 40 people have just been recently diagnosed with the sexually transmitted infection (STI) this year, which is more than four times the rate during the same period in 2009.

A single patient infected with the increasingly common superbug known as MRSA can cost a hospital $60,000, U.S. researchers reported Tuesday.

A study involving 128 South African families has identified genetic traits that may protect some people from tuberculosis in a finding that could help lead to a new TB vaccine, scientists said on Saturday.

Half of all patients in intensive care units around the world have infections, and more than 70 percent are being given antibiotics -- a trend that could help more drug-resistant superbugs emerge, researchers reported on Tuesday.