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Pioneering NZ study to aid war on rheumatic fever

Pioneering NZ study to aid war on rheumatic fever
- An inflammatory response can cause joint pain, or rheumatic heart disease, which scars heart valves and kills about 140 people in New Zealand each year. The disease is notably associated with poverty and overcrowded housing and the incidence is far higher in New Zealand's Maori and Pacific ...

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