A 30-year-old female presented to a tertiary hospital with two weeks of fevers and left upper quadrant abdominal pain after returning from the Gili Islands, Indonesia. She was immunised against hepatitis B, hepatitis A, and typhoid. She did not take malaria prophylaxis and recalls being bitten by insects. Laboratory investigations revealed an elevated C-reactive protein level (158 mg/L), mild t...

Diphtheria is rarely reported in Australia. A case of cutaneous diphtheria was reported to the South Australian Department for Health and Ageing in April 2013 in an Australian-born 18-year-old female following travel in India. The case presented with a skin ulcer on her toe. Toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae was isolated from a swab of the lesion. The case was treated with antibiotics. The ...

The formal recognition of Travellers as a distinct ethnic group by the Irish State in 2017 was arguably significant step towards redressing pernicious and endemic institutional racism marginalisation that have historically experienced Ireland. It announced Government October 2018 review place existing school curricula would be undertaken, with view to including Traveller history culture at prim...