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One person has died and two others are in hospital with meningococcal disease in Western Australia, health authorities have confirmed.

Three people were diagnosed with the uncommon and life-threatening disease — two with serogroup B and one with serogroup W.

"Sadly one adult has died, and the other two adults are recovering in hospital. The cases were not linked," WA Health said. 

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The death and diagnoses has sparked warnings for people to ensure they are vaccinated against the potentially fatal disease.

The three cases are the first in the state this year.

Last year, there were nine cases and no deaths. 

Meningococcal disease is caused by a bacterial infection of the blood or membranes and can spread rapidly, killing about five to 10 per cent of people diagnosed.

Another 15 per cent may experience long-term complications like hearing loss, amputations and brain damage. 

The disease is, however, treatable with antibiotics if medical attention is sought immediately and most people usually recover. 

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"Meningococcal bacteria are carried harmlessly in the back of the nose and throat by about 10 to 20 per cent of the population at any one time," WA Health said.

"Very rarely, the bacteria invade the bloodstream or tissues and cause serious infections."

Symptoms include high fever, chills, headache, neck stiffness, nausea and vomiting, drowsiness, confusion, and severe muscle and joint pains.

In young children who may not complain of symptoms, parents can look out for a fever, pale or blotchy complexion, vomiting, lethargy, poor feeding and rashes.

Anyone who experiences these symptoms are urged to seek medical attention urgently.

Woolworths has lauded itself as an "exemplary employer" and "a model accused" in court as the supermarket giant admitted underpaying more than $1 million to about 1200 workers.

Two days after Woolworths' boss was threatened with jail for holding the Senate in contempt, the company faced Melbourne Magistrates Court where it pleaded guilty to more than 1000 charges.

Woolworths is facing a maximum penalty of more than $10 billion over the offending, prosecutors said on Thursday.

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Barrister Kathleen Crennan, acting for the Wage Inspectorate Victoria, said the regulator was contacted in February 2022 by lawyers for Woolworths after it undertook a review of its payroll systems.

The supermarket chain discovered it was not paying some employees their long service leave entitlements after they left Woolworths, due to discrepancies in how those payments were being calculated.

Crennan said the inspectorate investigated and found the underpayments occurred for former Woolworths and Woolstar workers on 3617 occasions between January 2020 and July 2022.

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The regulator took the case to court and charged Woolworths for those who were underpaid sums of more than $250, which resulted in about $1 million in unpaid leave for 1227 former Victorian staff.

Woolworths' barrister Saul Holt KC admitted it was an "interesting week" to be discussing the supermarket in open court.

"But Woolworths is much more than some headlines and a senate inquiry," he said.

He said Woolworths was described as "a model accused" by the prosecution, as it had self-reported and self-investigated the underpayments to the regulator.

"Woolworths is an exemplary employer," he said, adding it was a major employer of young people aged under 25.

Holt said the proposed $10 billion maximum penalty was "extraordinary" and asked the magistrate not to dole out such a high penalty as it could discourage other employers from self-reporting.

"There's an incredibly important policy imperative in encouraging employers… to say when 'we find anomalies, we're not just going to fix them in the future, we're going to go back and check'," he said.

Woolworths has since paid back most of the underpaid after alerting them via text message, email and post, and paid those they could not get in contact with into their last known bank account, he said.

Crennan said Woolworths, as a major corporation with ample resources, should have put in place mechanisms to prevent the underpayments from occurring in the first place.

"With a corporation of these resources, across jurisdictions, there's really no excuse for this to have happened," she said.

Magistrate Nahrain Warda asked why it took so long for Woolworths to discover the payroll issues, given it had changed systems in 2016.

"Why is it not until 2020 that the testing is, in essence, to ensure there are no anomalies? One would think that would be ongoing," she said.

"Woolworths can't escape from the fact that over that period those anomalies were not picked up, that should not have occurred and would not have occurred now because we know more," Mr Holt replied.

Woolworths will be sentenced on April 24.

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