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Gov. Josh Green battled a measles outbreak that killed 83 people, mostly children. President Trump wants Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a vaccine skeptic, as his health policy chief.
In 2019, a devastating measles outbreak erupted in Samoa. Eighty-three people, most of them children, died. Another 5,000 contracted the disease. In total, around 3% of the small island’s ...
The deaths shook confidence in the health-care system. The World Health Organization estimated that in 2018, only 31 percent of infants in Samoa received the measles vaccine, a drop from 60 to 70 ...
Samoa was plunged into a constitutional crisis Monday when the woman who won an election last month was locked out of Parliament and the previous leader claimed he remained in charge.
RFK Jr. asked to explain vaccine stance, pressed about measles outbreak in Samoa 07:11. As U.S. senators grill Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week, President Trump's pick to run the Department of ...
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 ...
$20m World Bank support to Samoan farmers and fishers with improvements to management, market access, infrastructure and climate resilience. WASHINGTON, July 2, 2019 – Local producers and tens of ...
The law requires that at least 10 per cent of Samoa's parliamentary seats be held by women. But in an ironic twist, an interpretation of that mandate might stop Fiame Naomi Mata'afa from becoming ...