Two nurses in Samoa wearing masks during the measles epidemic. Photo / Jenny Meyer
At least 15 children in Samoa are now reported to have died from measles or its complications as the epidemic takes hold in Samoa.
The Samoa Observer says two independent sources have confirmed that 15 children and one adult died from measles-related complications in either the intensive care unit or
the emergency department of the hospital.
The figure given by the National Emergency Coordination Centre is 15 measles-related deaths.
Two of the latest deaths were prematurely born babies, one to a mother who had the clinical symptoms of measles.
The Samoa Observer also reports that the five-year-old twin children of the only adult to have died from measles so far have also died. The second child died last Saturday.
