NSW Health has issued a public health alert for meningococcal disease after two cases were reported in people who attended this year’s Splendour in the Grass music festival in northern NSW. Meningococcal is a contagious infection classified as a medical ...

A devastated mother has pleaded for people to be wary of meningococcal after it claimed the life of her teenage daughter on the NSW Central Coast. Health authorities on Monday confirmed 19-year-old Mischelle Rhodes died from the disease at Gosford ...