We're being urged to help Samoa avoid a measles epidemic.. with fears the infection came from Auckland
We're being urged to help Samoa avoid a measles epidemic.. with fears the infection came from Auckland
31 October 2019
All Samoan pre-schools have been closed after two babies and a 37-year-old are thought to have died from the virus.
Vaccinologist Helen Petousis-Harris says only 30 percent of the country is immunised.
She says we should be helping, because we've effectively exported the disease by not controlling it here.
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