50 children killed by measles in Samoa as outbreak worsens

ABC ^ | 12/1/2019 | NICK PERRY

[Gamecock]

Samoa’s government said Monday that another five children had died within the past day from a measles outbreak, bringing the death toll from the epidemic to more than 50 as authorities race to vaccinate the entire population.

Samoa declared a national emergency last month and mandated that all 200,000 people living on the South Pacific island nation get vaccinated. The government has closed all schools and banned children from public gatherings.

In all, 53 people have died in the outbreak since late October, including one adult and two older teenagers. Most of those who have died have been babies and young infants, including 23 children aged less than 1 and 25 children aged between 1 and 4.

The government said more than 1,100 people have been admitted to hospitals since the outbreak began and about 180 people remain hospitalized. Among those hospitalized are 19 children who are in critical condition.

[SkyDancer]

anti-vaxers.

[dangus]

But skipping your child’s vaccination is your own business! (Even if you kill 52 or 71 other children?)

[Kozak]

Probably just too poor and ignorant to get their kids vaccinated.
They have an excuse.

[silverleaf]

Terrible terrible way to die
And preventable
Parents have to live with this

[Calvin Locke]

Since ABC didn’t lead with blaming Trump, I suppose this is the former NZ territory(?), not American Samoa?

[Varda]

Another news story is saying otherwise. They used to have a high vaccination rate but a couple years ago there was an accident with vaccines and 2 kids died. Samoan parents then made the same decision anti-vaxxers make. They didn’t evaluate the risk, they just reacted to the individual incidents.

[joma89]

File this story under the “Ya can’t fix stupid” category.

JoMa

[SkyDancer]

They had programs to do just that.

[Steve Van Doorn]

Government is working on ways to stop inflammation of the brain while claiming it's no big deal. to be clear all Vaccines has Interleukin-1 (IL-1) is a highly active pro-inflammatory. Inflammation of the brain is what causes autism that was shown last year
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3644509/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7547355/Inflammation-main-driver-autism-say-scientists-studied-brains-8-kids-spectrum.html?fbclid=IwAR37AI9ataA0yLFzI5BGvTFR4VhSCtLJOLspxFkKpNERZDmu549RolITByc

[Jacquerie]

The good news is they can’t develop autism. /s

[Kozak]

Well if thats the case, they don’t have an excuse.

[SkyDancer]

I thought that autism/vaccines was debunked long ago; it’s the argument anti-vaxers use while spreading measles and other bacterial infections among themselves and other unprotected people.

[moovova]

As the oceans rise (because of global warming), island germs are forced to live within ever tightening circles of dry land....causing more human infections.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Infectious Disease - Measles - Samoa

Samoa’s government said Monday that another five children had died within the past day
from a measles outbreak, bringing the death toll from the epidemic to more than 50
as authorities race to vaccinate the entire population.

The government has closed all schools and banned children from public gatherings.
The government is trying to vaccinate the 200,000 population to control the disease.

In all, 53 people have died in the outbreak since late October.
Most of those who have died have been babies and young infants,
including 23 children aged less than 1 and 25 children aged between 1 and 4.
The government said more than 1,100 people have been admitted to hospitals
since the outbreak began and about 180 people remain hospitalized.
Among those hospitalized are 19 children who are in critical condition.

H/T to Gamecock !

[null and void]

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[null and void]

When I was a kid, we had measles parties. AFAIK nobody died.

[MayflowerMadam]

We had those parties for chicken pox. (Or we just went to school and caught it there.)

[null and void]

We had an ocean
of calamine lotion...

[MayflowerMadam]

Hmmmm. But we didn’t have Poison Ivy Parties.