Health workers are concerned high rates of disease are so common in remote communities that they have become normalised

A research team has halved the proportion of potentially deadly skin infections among Indigenous children who took part in their study, which experts hope will “make a big difference for the next generation”.

Almost half of remote-living Indigenous children have skin sores – such as impetigo and scabies – at any one time.

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