Ayo, that rheumatic fever—it's the body's own soldiers, after fighting strep throat, getting confused and attacking the heart's valves instead. Here in Imphal, by the time many reach me, that childhood damage has already hardened into severe stenosis; penicillin can't reverse scar tissue. Prevention fails because the first sore throat is often treated with a roadside antibiotic pill, not the full ten-day penicillin course needed to truly kill the strep. I see this every week, listening to the leaking valves through my stethoscope, a sound like a tired whisper, while knowing the nearest centre for valve replacement is a plane ticket away that most families save years for.
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