Twenty-five newborn babies and about 100 staff at a Melbourne hospital may have been exposed to tuberculosis after another baby was born with the disease late last year.
In one of only 300 known cases in the world, the baby was infected with tuberculosis in the womb by a dormant form of the bacteria carried by his healthy mother.
The baby has been quarantined in a negative pressure room at the Monash Medical Centre in Clayton as staff perform blood tests on 25 babies in the hospital at the time of his birth, the Herald Sun said.
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