EXPECTANT mothers are to be offered a whooping cough jab to protect their babies after an outbreak of the illness claimed the lives of 10 infants.
The temporary programme for mothers-to-be is being introduced after Scotland suffered the worst outbreak of the disease since the 1980s.
There have been more than 1000 confirmed cases of whooping cough north of the Border since the beginning of this year, compared with 61 for the same period in 2011.
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