Hospital whooping cough scare

Originally aired on Checkpoint, Thursday 10 May 2012

170 women and their babies at Middlemore Hospital's maternity unit may have been exposed to the potentially lethal whooping cough after a midwife was diagnosed with the highly infectious disease at the beginning of this month.

Duration:  3′ 24″ 

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