{"id":55895,"date":"2019-12-22T13:55:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T05:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=55895"},"modified":"2019-12-22T13:57:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T05:57:56","slug":"update-79-die-of-measles-in-samoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=55895","title":{"rendered":"Update: 79 Die Of Measles In Samoa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SUVA, Dec 22 (NNN-SPIN) &#8211; The Samoan government said today (Sunday) that, 79 people have died of measles, since the epidemic broke out in the South Pacific island nation in mid-Oct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some 5,520 measles cases have been reported to the Disease Surveillance Team, since the outbreak began, with 26 recorded in the last 24 hours, the government said, in a statement on Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far, 83 people have been hospitalised for treatment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of Saturday, 94 percent of the population have been vaccinated against measles, the government said. The country has a population of less than 200,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Samoa extended its state of emergency, declared last month, to Dec 29, placing additional restrictions on public gatherings and inter-island travels.<\/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-SPIN  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUVA, Dec 22 (NNN-SPIN) &#8211; The Samoan government said today (Sunday) that, 79 people have died of measles, since the epidemic broke out in the South Pacific island nation in mid-Oct. Some 5,520 measles cases have been reported to the Disease Surveillance Team, since the outbreak began, with 26 recorded in the last 24 hours, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":55897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,198],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55895"}],"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=55895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}