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An air and marine search and rescue operation is underway off the coast of Forster for two people missing from a cruise ship.
About 11.30am (Thursday 9 May 2013), staff from the Carnival Spirit cruise ship contacted police after they discovered two passengers – a 30-year-old man and a 26-year-old woman – missing after the [...]
Three people, all public hospital patients during early April, have been diagnosed with listeriosis.
Two of the patients – one at Concord Hospital and another at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital – remain in hospital and are responding well to treatment. The third – at Campbelltown Hospital – was being treated for a terminal illness and [...]
Reports are being prepared for the Coroner after the apparent deaths of two boys in separate incidents in Sydney this afternoon (Thursday 18 April 2013).
About 5,15pm, emergency services were called to a home in Fairfield after reports of a child being found in a bucket of water.
Police have been told the 11-month-old [...]
NSW Health is reminding pregnant women to get their influenza shot before the full force of winter hits.
NSW Kids and Families Senior Clinical Advisor Obstetrics, Associate Professor Michael Nicholl said women in their second and third trimester of pregnancy are at greater risk of very severe illness from influenza.
“Pregnancy takes its toll on [...]
Health Minister Jillian Skinner today launched a state-wide Get Ready For Winter plan to raise awareness of the need to prepare for the influenza season.
Mrs Skinner was joined at Westmead Hospital by personnel from across the health system, including a leading virologist and infectious diseases expert, an emergency department specialist, a GP and a [...]
Two quick-thinking neighbours have rescued a woman from her car after she crashed into a backyard pool in Sydney’s south-west.
About 11.20am today (Sunday 7 April 2013), emergency services were called to Lucas Road, East Hills, after a Holden Cruz station wagon had become submerged in a pool.
Police have been told the vehicle [...]
The members of the NSW SES have proven their versatility again this storm season, dealing not only with the challenges of storm damage and flooding, but also the devastating impacts of tornados, responding to more than 17,100 storm and flood jobs.
The season began with a series of severe thunderstorms that brought damaging winds which [...]
NSW Health is urging people who have had diarrhoea not to swim in pools until at least two weeks after they have fully recovered following an increase in cryptosporidiosis in NSW.
There have been 484 cases of cryptosporidiosis reported to NSW Health to date this year. The highest rates of infections are in children under five,” Dr [...]
NSW Health has received several reports of a rise in the number of young children aged less than five years old, with severe neurological complications caused by a particular type of enterovirus.
Many of the reports are from children in northern and south-eastern regions of Sydney.
This includes four children with severe infections within the [...]
Federal Attorney-General and Minister for Emergency Management, Mark Dreyfus, and emergency services personnel have today launched an upgraded online computer game for primary school-aged children to educate at-risk groups on the correct use of the Triple Zero emergency number.
The interactive Triple Zero Kids’ Challenge uses colourful, animated characters to provide lessons to children on [...]
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