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Diabetes may wipe out Aborigines

Published: November 13, 2006, Author: AngelSupport
Diabetes may wipe out Aborigines

The diabetes epidemic could wipe out Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population this century, a Melbourne-based expert has warned. Professor Paul Zimmet, director of Monash University’s International Diabetes Institute, says escalating rates of the disease in the world’s indigenous communities will decimate whole cultures.

Chief George Manuel Memorial Indigenous Library

The library is dedicated to the memory of Secwepemc Chief George Manuel (1921-1989), to the nations of the Fourth World and to the elders and generations to come.

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