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Health
Keira Jenkins

Indigenous kids 'suffering in silence' with ear disease

Hearing Australia has urged parents of Indigenous children to get regular hearing checks. (HANDOUT/HEARING AUSTRALIA)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children suffer some of the highest rates of middle ear infections in the world.

The disease is going undetected among 26 per cent of First Nations children, while one-in five live with undiagnosed hearing loss, according to clinical data from Hearing Australia. 

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