The alarming cluster of poisonings has sparked a major investigation by Queensland Health and the police to trace the source of the contamination. As the victims recover, investigators are racing ...

Five people in South-East Queensland were hospitalized after consuming brodifacoum, a potent rat poison, believed to be from a fast-food outlet. This anticoagulant disrupts blood clotting, leading to ...

Health authorities believe they have pinpointed two homemade foods in a Brisbane rat poisoning outbreak that left five people in hospital last week. The unlabelled items that tested positive for the ...

APVMA has again delayed the release of a draft decision on the regulation of readily-accessible rodenticides. Research earlier this year found rodenticides in endangered quoll populations from ...

A SERIAL thug on bail for a knife crime has been caged for the brutal murder of a much-loved father. The fatal attack happened after a brief bust-up between the men, who were not known to each other ...

The alarm was raised after five people went to Brisbane hospitals with symptoms of ingesting rat bait. Photos: Wikimedia Commons/AAP Health authorities have issued a public warning after five people ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Queensland Health is scrambling to identify how at least five people were poisoned in Brisbane’s south, with tests confirming they were ...

Patients presented themselves to Logan and Princess Alexandra hospitals after they consumed the suspected poisonous meals. Chief Health Officer Dr Catherine McDougall advised staff in an internal ...

Aussies have demanded to know the source of a rat poisoning cluster over fears five people became ill after ordering food from a takeaway place. Queensland Health is working to determine the source of ...

But Queensland Health, despite not yet finding ground zero of the poisonings, is assuring the community there is nothing to be alarmed about “at this time”. Five people, all from the Logan area, have ...