Why are Aboriginal children still dying from rheumatic heart disease?
- Written by Jonathan Carapetis, Professor, Paediatrics, Telethon Kids Institute
Indigenous 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 InfectionThis article is the second in our three-part series on blinding, deafening and sometimes deadly conditions in Indigenous Australian...
