Doctors urged to spot rheumatic fever

INDIGENOUS people are at increased risk of contracting acute rheumatic fever, which is preventable but leads to deadly heart disease if undetected.

WHEN Kenya McAdam's joints started hurting when she was 15, she thought it was due to a recent soccer game, or growing pains.

BUT within a week she had been rushed from Kununurra in the Kimberley to a Darwin hospital, where she suffered a cardiac arrest.