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One of their priorities at the moment is rheumatic heart disease.

Moreover, repeated infections can lead to the post-streptococcal sequelae of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease, for which the Australian Indigenous population bears the highest disease burden globally.

“Is this going to become the next rheumatic heart disease? We don’t know,” she said.

Born in 1928, Walter Tevis was a sickly, unhappy child, confined for many months to a hospital bed and dosed with addictive phenobarbital because of rheumatic heart disease.

Less obvious examples include group A streptococcus, which kills around 300,000 people a year by causing rheumatic heart disease.