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Measles arrived in Samoa in 1893, carried by a steamer from New Zealand. By the end of 1893, over 1,000 people (of a total population of 34,500 at that time) had died from the disease. [11] Measles is much more contagious than other infectious diseases such as polio, which only requires an 80% vaccination rate for the population to attain herd ...
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The 1846 measles outbreak in the Faroe Islands was unusual for being well studied. [174] Measles had not been seen on the islands for 60 years, so almost no residents had any acquired immunity. [174] Three-quarters of the residents got sick, and more than 100 (1–2%) died from it before the epidemic burned itself out. [174]
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American Samoa has declared a public health emergency over an outbreak of measles, forcing the territory’s Department of Education to close all schools until at least May 12, sending 12,000 ...
The graph on the left shows a computer model depicting the possible number of measles infections from an outbreak if the 2017-2018 school vaccination rates in Florida were to drop by 10%.
UNICEF sent almost 300,000 vaccines to Vanuatu, Cook Islands, Nauru, Niue, Tokelau and Tuvalu, Samoa, Tonga, and Fiji. [16] Samoa, Tonga, and Fiji have also declared states of emergency. [17] The WHO and UNICEF have developed a toolkit for Pacific island nations following the outbreak to aid in further measles prevention. [16]
Measles: 15 [302] 2019 Samoa measles outbreak: 2019 Samoa: Measles: 83 [303] 2019–2020 dengue fever epidemic: 2019–2020 Asia-Pacific, Latin America: Dengue fever: 3,931 [304] COVID-19 pandemic: 2019 [a] –present Worldwide COVID-19: 7.1–36.5 million [306] 2020 Democratic Republic of the Congo Ebola outbreak: 2020 Democratic Republic of ...