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Samoa’s battle with measles

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Tuesday 28 November 2023, 02:41 PM
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Samoa first introduced the MMR vaccine in 2009 [Image: Angelp on iStock]
The events led to a growing sense of “mistrust and uncertainty” about immunisation in Samoa The 2019 measles outbreak in Samoa inflicted a terrib
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