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Name: It kills almost as many Australian children as cancer
Uploaded: 2022-09-22T11:20:32.144Z
Duration: 2 min 24 s
Description: It’s a disease that kills almost as many Australian children as cancer. Yet childhood dementia is virtually unknown. As part of Dementia Action Week, a national initiative is hoping to raise awareness of the condition which currently affects some 700,000 children around the world.

It kills almost as many Australian children as cancer

Published 22 September 2022, 10:18 am

It’s a disease that kills almost as many Australian children as cancer. Yet childhood dementia is virtually unknown. As part of Dementia Action Week, a national initiative is hoping to raise awareness of the condition which currently affects some 700,000 children around the world.

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