Death toll from Samoa measles outbreak rises to 53, mostly young children

Since the Samoan government declared a national measles epidemic in late October, at least 53 people -- nearly all children -- have died from the highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease. Most of them are children under the age of 4.

The Samoan government officially declared a state of emergency on Nov. 15 and then launched a mandatory vaccination program for priority groups, including children and women of childbearing age who aren't pregnant. More than 58,000 people have been immunized against measles on the two main islands, Upolu and Savai’i. It typically takes about 10 to 14 days for the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to become effective.

Measles is a highly infectious viral illness that infects the respiratory tract then spreads throughout the body. It typically begins with cold-like symptoms and a fever, then a rash of flat red spots breaks out on the skin a few days later. As many as one out of every 20 children with measles gets pneumonia, the most common cause of death from measles in young children. And about one child out of every 1,000 who get measles will develop encephalitis -- swelling of the brain -- that can lead to convulsions and cause deafness or intellectual disability, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The scaremongering will be soon at your door.

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FYI: Vitamin A deficiency is a major contributing factor to severe measles and the high deficiency of Vitamin A in Samoan children is officially considered a 'public health concern'

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This is why the anti-vax movement is so counterproductive & wrong. There’s no proof that vaccines do anything other than drastically reduce child mortality rates.

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Dems (Pelosi) wouldn't pass bill? that would have sent 539,000 doses from U.S. do focused on impeachment

Putin is reading this laughing. His antivax propaganda is killing kids all over America

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