Fever pitch: The road ahead for rheumatic fever

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Fever pitch: The road ahead for rheumatic fever

Fiona

Thomas

fthomas@nzdoctor.co.nz

Thursday 28 December 2017, 12:00 AM

A University of Auckland study found school-based sore throat clinics helped reduce rheumatic fever in South Auckland children

Five years of effort and money have been put into cutting the high rates of rheumatic fever in New Zealand, but the sector has fallen well short of reaching the targets set. Fiona Thomas takes a look at how we arrived at this point and what's ahead

Shame is the common denominator in conversations about rheumatic fever in New Zealand. The disease, which hospitalises about 137 people a year, is , rheumatic fever poster, Rheumatic fever awareness campaigns have focused on the harm the disease does to vulnerable young people

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