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Special report: Samoan measles victims died after catching superbugs resistant to antibiotics

Nicholas Jones
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Investigative Reporter·NZ Herald·
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Special report: Samoan measles victims died after catching superbugs resistant to antibiotics
Many of the children and babies lost to measles are buried outside their homes. Photo / Mike Scott

Samoan children hospitalised with measles died after catching antibiotic-resistant superbugs that threaten patients and life-saving treatments in New Zealand.

Documents obtained by the Weekend Herald reveal disturbing details about the measles epidemic that swept Samoa last year, after an outbreak in New Zealand that was likely the source,

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