Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy says he cannot walk down the street without mothers swarming him to thank him for the work ...

The pacific island nation of Samoa has been making headlines over the past month due to a significant measles outbreak. At last count, 4,995 measles cases had been recorded, and 72 people, mostly ...

Samoa’s population of about 195,000 is less than Arlington County’s, but it has suffered a major outbreak of measles that has led to 68 deaths, most of them children.

Authorities in Samoa are racing to contain a deadly outbreak of measles, one of the world’s most infectious diseases, as the death toll climbed to 65 on December 7 and the number of cases passed ...

The pacific island nation of Samoa has been making headlines over the past month due to a significant measles outbreak. At last count, 4,995 measles cases had been recorded, and 72 people, mostly ...

Measles infections had popped up around the Pacific, but the virus only took hold in Samoa, where the national immunisation rate had fallen to a low of 30 per cent. A preventable crisis ...

Measles spread like wildfire through Samoa after vaccination rates plummeted. At least 95% of people have to be immunised in order to stop massive outbreaks of measles.

According to the latest tweet from the Government of Samoa, the measles outbreak so far has resulted in at least 3,530 cases and 48 deaths: Yes, ...

Samoa has declared a state of emergency after several deaths linked to a measles outbreak, closing schools and placing restrictions on public gatherings.. Some 14 children under the age of five ...

Racing to contain the measles outbreak that has killed 60 people amid low vaccination rates, the government of Samoa has turned to a disease-control tactic going back centuries.

When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visited in June 2019, Samoa was on the brink of crisis. The government had suspended measles vaccinations the year before after an improperly prepared vaccine killed two ...

Samoa is in a state of national emergency over a measles outbreak that has now led to 15 deaths — here's what you need to know.