‘All You Need Is One Person on a Plane’: Stifling a Lethal Measles Outbreak

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Health officials expand efforts to prevent highly contagious virus spreading to more Pacific islands after deadly outbreak in Samoa

Tonga, Fiji and American Samoa, a U.S. territory, have all reported outbreaks or cases of measles in recent weeks.

But Samoa, an independent country that is an eight-hour ferry ride from American Samoa, has suffered the largest outbreak by far. As of Saturday, measles had killed 79 people in the island nation and sickened...

 

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Protect the Samoans. Someone please get more vaccination kits there ASAP.

Anti-science that WSJ supports

Edward Jenner watching like:

When will we accept that vaccines work?

Samoans are people of color. Republicans fund anything against people of color. Enough said.

A vast majority of American citizens are vaccinated and support it diligently. Those that oppose are stupid as fuck

The level of ignorance and stupidity of some folks is beyond imagination. Religion, only religion can create such folks.

This should be a crime

So they support children dying! Such ignorance.

That's terrible news. This should not be happening.

... all outbreaks 😷 come to civilized world from 3rd world countries... stop illegals..

Trump says vaccines cause autism.

'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'

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