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“Then how come I know two other people in my area who have had it?” Whitelegg replied. “That … does not make sense,” said Buttery. “We’ll take a look.” There were just 12 cases of infant botulism in Victoria between 1978 and 2022. Whitelegg knew about three of them, and they were all in her home town: Mildura, in the state’s far north. A two-year investigation by the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute has now found six other cases in the region. A cluster of an ultra-rare disease. Whitelegg speaking up allowed scientists to spot the needle in the haystack.
