The community laundry working to reduce heart disease in the Northern Territory

Access to a working laundry is one of the easiest ways to reduce rates of scabies, which is widespread in many remote Indigenous communities and can increase the risk of rheumatic heart diseaseGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWhen former Olympian Liz Morgan-Brett toured remote Aboriginal communities in 2018, she saw first-hand the impact of unsafe living conditions.“[There were] scabies infections, crusted scabies, and those secondary complications that stem from repeated scabies infections, which is acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease,” she says. Continue reading...