Skin checks helped reduce infections in Aboriginal children by half, study finds

Health workers are concerned high rates of disease are so common in remote communities that they have become normalised

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A research team has halved the proportion of potentially deadly skin infections among Indigenous children who took part in their study, which experts hope will “make a big difference for the next generation”.

Almost half of remote-living Indigenous children have skin sores – such as impetigo and scabies – at any one time.

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