The woman’s one-year-old died in the measles outbreak that has wracked the Pacific nation over the past two months. Since October, a measles outbreak has gripped the Pacific nation, killing 76 people – more than 60 of them children under the age of four. Samoa’s vaccination rate was too low to protect its people when measles arrived, probably brought by a traveller from New Zealand, which has suffered its own measles outbreak over the last year. New Zealand newspaper publishes cartoon mocking Samoa measles crisis Read moreThe Samoan government sources who spoke to the Guardian did not wish to be named out of fear they may lose their jobs. “This is a feature of almost every measles outbreak I’ve ever been a part of, including in highly-developed countries.

Source: The Guardian December 17, 2019 23:58 UTC