A team of doctors and nurses from New Zealand has traveled to Samoa to help vaccinate and care for patients amid a serious measles outbreak that has resulted in 22 deaths. The Pacific island nation declared a measles epidemic in October following the first deaths.
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- 24 children dead as Samoa’s measles outbreak worsens