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Cardiologists and First Nations leaders on mission to stop rheumatic heart disease in Central Australia

Deadly Heart Trek team in Central Australia screening for rheumatic heart disease. (Supplied: Deadly Heart Trek)

Gavin Wheaton was only 26 years old when he saw his first case of rheumatic heart disease. 

That was 40 years ago, when Dr Wheaton was a training paediatric registrar working in the remote Central Australian community of Yuendumu.

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