All the latest news and updates relating to childhood diseases and illnesses
A MEDIEVAL virus that can cause deadly side effects in some children is surging through holiday hotspots, health officials have warned.Almost 1,000 measles case...
SUMMER holidays are just around the corner; it’s best to be prepared, including knowing how long kids can stay home alone.It can be hard for parents who are wor...
NIAMH Rose Mulheron had experienced headaches since she was a child. It wasn’t until years later, when other symptoms she initially mistook for flu appeared, th...
A SWARM of blood-sucking mosquitoes encircle me, buzzing around my face.I’m perched on a bed in a tin-roofed shed and the only barrier to the outside world is a...
SOPHIE Whitworth took her daughter Taliyah to the GP when the five-year-old began vomiting twice a week after eating strawberries.“I just listened to the doctor...
THREE children have been rushed to hospital after an outbreak of a highly contagious bug swept through a school. Seven children in a class of 22 at the Compton...
BRITS jetting off to a popular stag and hen hotspot have been urged to get jabbed amid a fast-spreading outbreak of ‘dirty hands disease’.Hundreds have fallen i...
HEALTH chiefs have alerted the public to a ‘highly contagious’ disease with ‘serious’ complications. was the leading cause of infant death during the .Scarlet f...
A LITTLE girl was left “frothing at the mouth”;; after catching a common virus, which doctors suspect spread to her brain. The eight-year-old rapidly deteriorat...
A MUM has told how her daughter was left fighting for life after swallowing 14 magnetic toy balls.Little Rebecca McCarthy is said to be one of rushed to A&E in...
A BABY has had his DNA rewritten to treat his a deadly genetic disorder in a world first. Little KJ Muldoon, now 15 months old, was diagnosed with just days aft...
THE number of people who have fallen sick with an animal-borne bug after visiting a petting farm in Wales has risen to 81, officials have confirmed. after visit...
