Measles — Worldwide/Unknown
Samoa has closed all schools and cracked down on public gatherings as it enters a state of emergency over the deadly measles outbreak spreading across the Pacific islands.
The island state of just 200 000, halfway between Hawaii and New Zealand, announced the state of emergency on [Sat 16 Nov 2019] after declaring a measles epidemic late in October 2019, when the 1st deaths were reported.
Since then, at least 6 deaths, mostly infants under the age of 2, have been linked to the outbreak,
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