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Measles cases in Samoa more than double over past week as death toll rises - National
The number of suspected cases of measles on the Pacific island of Samoa has more than doubled over the past week to 3,530 and deaths related to the outbreak rose to 48 from 20 a week ago, the country’s Ministry of Health said on Sunday.
Samoa has become vulnerable to measles outbreaks as the number of people becoming immunized has declined with the World Health Organisation (WHO) saying vaccine coverage is just about 31 per cent.
[...] The government started a mandatory vaccination program on Nov. 20 after declaring a state of emergency due to the outbreak. The health ministry said in its statement that 57,132 people have since been vaccinated.
Schools and universities have been closed and most public gatherings banned on the island state of just 200,000, located south of the equator and half way between Hawaii and New Zealand.
Of the 48 deaths, 44 where among children under the age of four. Since Saturday, there have been 173 new cases of measles recorded and four people have died.
Neighboring New Zealand and a number of other countries and organizations, including the U.N. agency UNICEF, have delivered thousands of vaccines, medical supplies and have sent medical personnel to help with the outbreak.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Pav on Tuesday December 03 2019, @02:46AM (9 children)
...that the problem is malnourishment.
Apparently zero kids above and equal to the average weight have died, a small percentage of those in the next 10% down, with most death in the smallest kids. I'm sure some frantic statistical analysis and on-the-fly theorising went on to come to THAT conclusion.
Forget that small kids can be well nourished etc... etc... Those aren't the droids you're looking for.
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 03 2019, @02:59AM (8 children)
Jan 2019:
https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=29667&page=1&cid=788422#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]
*Looks at Calendar*
This is news for retards. Cases will continue to increase until about April. You will keep flinging your bs around like a monkey surprised at the eclipse it does not comprehend.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 03 2019, @03:12AM (4 children)
Also, a 2% death rate is very high for measles. Something else is going on, wouldn't surprise me if they are just saying any child that died in their custody who said they were unvaccinated was due to measles.
(Score: 4, Informative) by HiThere on Tuesday December 03 2019, @04:15AM (3 children)
No. These aren't people whose ancestors survived measles for thousands of generations. Measles came to the pacific islands with the European sailing ships. So that's not a high death rate, it's a low one. Probably a lot of race-mixing has happened to get it that low.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 03 2019, @08:04AM
WTF? Race mixing?
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 03 2019, @03:51PM (1 child)
Where in the world did you get this crackpot race mixing story?
Measles mortality tastes dropped 100 fold in the UK and US from 10/100k to .1 per 100k between 1910 and 1960: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1522578/ [nih.gov]
Was this due to race mixing too?
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Wednesday December 04 2019, @03:59AM
If you think there wasn't race mixing, you need to explain the Hawaiian islanders who are a mix of (mainly) polynesian, oriental, and caucasian. On other islands the mixes were different in detail.
As for the "high death rate", try this: https://timelines.issarice.com/wiki/Timeline_of_measles [issarice.com]
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(Score: 4, Touché) by Mykl on Tuesday December 03 2019, @04:21AM (2 children)
Kids dying of heat stress from being locked in cars is also a seasonal phenomenon. That doesn't mean that we can't take steps to reduce the number during the 'peak season'.
Your comment was so dumb it hurt. What you are effectively saying is that we should do nothing about seasonal health-affecting issues and just accept them as-is. Do not send to know for whom the retard bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 03 2019, @08:48AM (1 child)
Yes, "take measures" to "mix the races". But you arent nazi.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 03 2019, @10:41PM
HiThere was the one that mentioned 'race mixing', not Mykl. At least vent your outrage at the right poster.