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Rudi Maxwell

Deadly Heart Trek works with community to eliminate RHD

Georgina Byron (left) and Vicki Wade (centre) teach kids about 'cheeky', aka Strep A bacteria. (Rudi Maxwell/AAP PHOTOS)

There's nothing funny about this topic, yet these children are filled with laughter as they learn about 'cheeky' at a pop-up clinic in Alice Springs.

The Deadly Heart Trek is visiting to check them for possible signs of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease, which has been all but eliminated everywhere in Australia except in Aboriginal communities.

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