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Thirty dead turtles wash up on Fraser Coast in a month but soft-shell syndrome treatment offers hope

It has been a grim season in one of Queensland's best-known regions for sea turtles, as more than 10 times the usual number of sick and dying animals are pulled from the water.

In the Wide Bay region, however, there is hope as improved treatment methods for the fatal soft-shell syndrome allow a bale of once ill-stricken turtles to return fighting fit to the wild.

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