27 Nov 2018

Health ministry moves to quash new meningitis outbreak

From The Panel, 4:19 pm on 27 November 2018

A new strain of meningococcal virus has killed six people in the past year, three of them in Northland. That's led the government to introduce a new vaccination programme for people in that area. But was the reaction too slow? Dr Nikki Turner from the Immunisation Advisory Centre joins us to discuss.

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