The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) carried a story on the new global push to develop the world’s first vaccine against Strep A in the wake of Wellcome Trust’s US$2.25 million grant to IVI and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. – Ed.

For most people, Strep A only means sore tonsils, but severe cases can lead to sepsis, rheumatic fever and heart disease. Strep A is rare across much of Australia but it still has a devastating impact in remote Indigenous communities…..

Click here to take a listen: https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/worldtoday/global-push-to-find-vaccine-against-devastating-bug-growing/11167850