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Why are Aboriginal children still dying from rheumatic heart disease?

  • Written by Jonathan Carapetis, Professor, Paediatrics, Telethon Kids Institute
imageIndigenous Australians in the Northern Territory are more than 100 times as likely to have rheumatic heart disease than their non-Indigenous counterparts.Screenshot/Take Heart - Strep: Group A Streptococcal Infection

This article is the second in our three-part series on blinding, deafening and sometimes deadly conditions in Indigenous Australian...

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