Measles: outbreaks

they were hoping that Measles would be eliminated world wide.

Latest outbreak: Samoa with 6 dead according to the NYTimes.

more at the UKGuardian which doesn't have a paywall:

Since then, at least six deaths, mostly infants under the age of two, have been linked to the outbreak, the health ministry said in a statement late last week. Of the 716 suspected cases of measles, 40% required hospitalisation....

Measles cases are rising globally, including in wealthy nations such as the US and Germany, where some parents shun immunisation mostly for philosophical or religious reasons, or concerns, debunked by medical science, that such vaccines could cause autism.

this is in Samoa: American Samoa is not involved (yet...) because it's vaccination rate is higher (90 percent).
sigh.

And after the Dengue vaccine scandal, some parents didn't get their kids vaccinated here int the Philippines, so we had an outbreak too