'These babies should not have died': How the measles outbreak took hold in Samoa

The unprecedented health crisis has claimed 72 lives, mostly children. Now questions are being asked about how it came to this

“Every time I visit my baby, I see a morgue full of dead babies,” says a mother sitting at Tupua Tamasese Meaole National Hospital in Apia, the capital of Samoa.

The woman’s one-year-old died in the measles outbreak 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’s body.

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