Faulty diagnosis forces abortion

By LANE NICHOLS - The Dominion Post | Monday, 14 July 2008

A woman has been forced to have an abortion after a lab-test blunder wrongly diagnosed her with drug-resistant tuberculosis.

The mistake meant the woman, who recently emigrated to New Zealand, had to undergo "very toxic" treatment requiring her to have a medically induced abortion. The termination of her pregnancy was later found to have been unnecessary.


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