TB scandal in Italy: 80 newborns infected
About 80 newborn babies have been infected with tuberculosis (TB) in one of Italy's largest and most modern hospitals, Russian Ria Novosti quotes local media as saying.
According to official information, 79 babies born in the Gemelli Hospital in Rome have recently tested positive for tuberculosis. However, an influential Italian consumers' rights organization, Codacons, says the figure could be twice as high.
The scandal broke out in mid-August when it was announced that one of the nurses at the hospital's neonatal department tested positive for TB, and all the children born from March to July are under the threat of infection.