A DEVASTATING disease that kills newborn babies is making a re-emergence as a result of the anti-vaccination movement. "She said it can't be vitamin K deficiency, and I said 'I'm sorry but the tests show the baby is deficient'," Dr Ingall says. Newborn haemorrhagic disease, which is caused by a deficiency in vitamin K, has killed six babies in the past two decades, including one in 2013 and another in 2012. Dr Ingall said once a week he had to try to convince new parents to give the vitamin K shot because they had wrongly been told it was dangerous. The disease used to kill about 15 newborn babies a year in NSW in the late 1960s and early 1970s before routine vitamin K injections for newborns reduced the incidence to near zero.
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