A new vaccine to combat disease caused by rheumatic fever may soon become a reality. It has the potential to save hundreds of thousands of deaths from preventable heart disease, throughout the world each year. Dr Lance O'Sullivan is a Northland-based doctor who set up a low cost rural clinic, Te Ko-hanga Whaka-ora -The Nest of Wellness, in Kaitaia.
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