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To catch a killer parasite

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By Ruby Prosser Scully Verified
| Rotary International Verified
At first it just seemed like a bad flu. The illness struck Danielle Stanisic while she was in New York for a research gig, her first time living away from home in Australia. It was her lab mates, though, who grew alarmed and insisted she get tested. It turned out Stanisic, who had traveled to Papua New Guinea six months earlier, had malaria. The next week in the hospital was a blur of suffering, but looking back 20 years later, Stanisic’s overriding feeling about the ordeal is how lucky she was.
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To catch a killer parasite

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By Ruby Prosser Scully Verified, Rhys Martin
| Rotary International Verified
At first it just seemed like a bad flu. The illness struck Danielle Stanisic while she was in New York for a research gig, her first time living away from home in Australia. It was her lab mates, though, who grew alarmed and insisted she get tested. It turned out Stanisic, who had traveled to Papua New Guinea six months earlier, had malaria. The next week in the hospital was a blur of suffering, but looking back 20 years later, Stanisic’s overriding feeling about the ordeal is how lucky she was.
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Second breast cancer diagnosis unlikely

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By Ruby Prosser Scully Verified
| Oncology Republic Verified
Women diagnosed with early breast cancer are only marginally more likely to develop another compared with the general population. The risks of a second breast cancer after a previous early breast cancer is low, according to new research in the BMJ. An analysis of almost half a million women in England over around 20 years found that women who had surgery for an early breast cancer were only 2-3% more likely to develop a second primary breast cancer than women in the general population.
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