STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS
Antallergy.org
Mr QUICK (Franklin) (4.06 p.m.) Tasmanians affected by an allergy to jack jumper ant stings are biting back with the formation of a support and advocacy group. Calling itself ‘Antallergy.org’, this group hopes to work with the health minister in Tasmania, David Llewellyn, to ensure that the internationally renowned jack jumper immunotherapy program, currently conducted at the Royal Hobart Hospital, continues into the future.
Over the past four years the program has seen the development of a 100 per cent effective vaccine, but further funding is needed before it can be made widely available to the 12,000 Tasmanians and over 50,000 Australians who are currently affected by jack jumper ant stings.
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