SAT 09 APR 2005
Tasmanians with potentially fatal jack jumper allergies will receive help if the Liberals win the next state election.
Opposition Leader Rene Hidding and health spokeswoman Sue Napier yesterday said if they won government, the Liberals would spend $240,000 in the first year of a program to desensitise 500 people against a fatal reaction to a jack jumper bite.
Mr Hidding said five people had died from jack jumper bites in Tasmania between 1988 and 2001.
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