June 2001

Ant bite sparks fund-raising effort

SUN 17 JUN 2001

Many would have difficulty finding the link between jack jumper ants and hearing aids, but Hobart audiometerist David Booth not only found it: he used one to fund the other.

And thanks to a good idea and some shrewd marketing, Mr Booth has now helped raise more than $4000 for medical research in Tasmania.

It began more than two years ago when a young medical researcher addressed a meeting of the Sandy Bay Rotary club about jack jumper bites.

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antallergy.org also exists to promote and advocate for the further development and bringing to market of a treatment to desensitise those affected by Jack Jumper ant stings.

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