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Water Bugs

28 July 2011

Every year more than 200 people in Queensland get very sick with a nasty, little understood, hard-to-treat type of bacteria. Other states report none. Why?

Our water supply is now so complex, things are overlooked. ABC Background Briefing Reporter, Ian Townsend speaks to suffers and experts in the area including Dr. Rachael Thompson, Respiratory Physician and Researcher from the Gallipoli Medical Research Foundation, based at the Greenslopes Private Hospital.

Click here to hear the ABC Background Briefing podcast.

Click here or more information about the Centre for NTM and Bronchiectasis Research at the Gallipoli Medical Research Foundation.