26 November 2018 - The NZ Government is launching an urgent immunisation programme to fight an outbreak of meningococcal disease in Northland, which has had the highest number of cases and deaths of the new MenW strain.

But questions are being raised about why a response has taken so long, given that a Northland DHB microbiologist had been warning the Northland DHB in May this year.

The Ministry of Health received advice on November 8 that there was an outbreak in Northland, where three of the six nationwide MenW deaths took place this year, including a 7-year-old girl and a teenage boy.

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