{"id":67925,"date":"2024-11-26T11:17:28","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T02:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/26\/rfk-jr-samoa-visit-measles-outbreak-vaccines"},"modified":"2024-11-26T11:17:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T02:17:28","slug":"we-learned-the-hard-way-samoa-remembers-a-deadly-measles-outbreak-and-a-visit-from-rfk-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67925","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We learned the hard way\u2019: Samoa remembers a deadly measles outbreak and a visit from RFK Jr"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few months before the outbreak in 2019, Kennedy travelled to Samoa and met with anti-vaccine figures, contributing to what health experts claim was a \u2018significant disinformation campaign\u2019<\/p>\n

The week before her three children died, Fa\u2019aoso Tuivale and her husband took them for a swim in the river flowing behind their house in the Samoan village of Lauli\u2019i.<\/p>\n

Itila, 3, and his twin siblings, Tamara and Sale, 13 months, had a fever and their parents hoped to cool them down. The children were ill with measles and were not vaccinated. When they worsened, on a Sunday, Fa\u2019aoso took them to hospital in Apia, 9km away. They were seen, and sent home.<\/p>\n

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A few months before the outbreak in 2019, Kennedy travelled to Samoa and met with anti-vaccine figures, contributing to what health experts claim was a \u2018significant disinformation campaign\u2019The week before her three children died, Fa\u2019aoso Tuivale and he…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4489,"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":[41,346,874,936,47,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-health","category-pacific-islands","category-samoa","category-us-news","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67925","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\/4489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67926,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67925\/revisions\/67926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}