{"id":52662,"date":"2019-11-30T15:16:30","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T07:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=52662"},"modified":"2019-11-30T15:22:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T07:22:40","slug":"measles-death-toll-rises-to-44-in-samoa-with-mass-vaccination-campaign-going-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=52662","title":{"rendered":"Measles Death Toll Rises To 44 In Samoa With Mass Vaccination Campaign Going On"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SUVA, Nov 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211; Samoa&#8217;s Ministry of Health confirmed today (Saturday), that two more deaths have been recorded in the island nation&#8217;s measles epidemic, in the last 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 44, since the outbreak started in mid-Oct. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a government statement, all but four of the deaths are children under the age of four.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Health said, a total of 3,357 cases have been recorded to the Disease Surveillance Team so far, with 208 cases reported in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 189 people are now hospitalised with the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, Samoa is in a state of emergency, with all schools closed, a mass vaccination campaign underway and public gatherings in the nation restricted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the Mass Vaccination Campaign, launched on Nov 20, the ministry has successfully vaccinated 54,046 individuals in the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Measles is a highly contagious viral disease, that is transmitted via droplets from the nose, mouth or throat of infected persons. Death may occur in up to 5-10 percent of infected young children in developing countries.&#8211; NNN-AGENCIES <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUVA, Nov 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211; Samoa&#8217;s Ministry of Health confirmed today (Saturday), that two more deaths have been recorded in the island nation&#8217;s measles epidemic, in the last 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 44, since the outbreak started in mid-Oct. According to a government statement, all but four of the deaths are children [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":52664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,198,296],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52662"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}