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Rachel Jackson

The 'disease of the elderly' afflicting Aussie kids

Nine-year-old Harriette is among about 30,000 young Australians living with juvenile arthritis. (Dan Himbrechts/AAP PHOTOS)

Before her then-four-year-old daughter's diagnosis, Arti Brown held a common perception that arthritis was a condition reserved for the elderly.

"I hate the fact that I must have felt like that at the time," the Sydney mum told AAP.

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