{"id":12243,"date":"2019-12-18T08:58:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T23:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/18\/these-babies-should-not-have-died-how-the-measles-outbreak-took-hold-in-samoa"},"modified":"2019-12-18T08:58:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T23:58:09","slug":"these-babies-should-not-have-died-how-the-measles-outbreak-took-hold-in-samoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12243","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;These babies should not have died&#8217;: How the measles outbreak took hold in Samoa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The unprecedented health crisis has claimed 76 lives, mostly children. Now questions are being asked about how it came to this<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery time I visit my baby, I see a morgue full of dead babies,\u201d says a mother sitting at Tupua Tamasese Meaole National Hospital in Apia, the capital of Samoa.<\/p>\n<p>The woman\u2019s one-year-old died in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/07\/samoa-measles-crisis-100-new-cases-as-anti-vaccination-activist-charged\">measles outbreak<\/a> that has wracked the Pacific nation over the past two months. She now comes to the morgue day after day, awaiting the release of her child\u2019s body.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/18\/these-babies-should-not-have-died-how-the-measles-outbreak-took-hold-in-samoa\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unprecedented health crisis has claimed 76 lives, mostly children. Now questions are being asked about how it came to this\u201cEvery time I visit my baby, I see a morgue full of dead babies,\u201d says a mother sitting at Tupua Tamasese Meaole National Hosp&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":782,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,346,936,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-health","category-samoa","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/782"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12244,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12243\/revisions\/12244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}