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Lets recap the real #SamoaMeasles story, shall we?
🔴 June 2018, nurse mixes #MMR vaccine w paralyzing med instead of sterile water
🔴2 babies die
🔴Rumors spread that MMR caused deaths
🔴Scared parents stop vaccinating and immunization rate plummets
🔴July 2018 US antivaxxer @delbigtree shares false story on @HighWireTalk stating deaths were due to #MMR vaccine
🔴June 2019 US antivaxxer @RobertKennedyJr visits #Samoa to reinforce that falsehood
🔴By Oct 2019 Samoan immunization rate is 31%
🔴Oct 2019 infectious traveler from New Zealand arrives on Samoa, starting outbreak
🔴Nov 15 Samoa declares state of emergency and begins mass vaccination
🔴Nov 17 Samoa shuts down schools indefinitely
🔴Nov 18 1,000 cases, 16 dead (mostly young children), 114 new cases in 24h
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Exemple tragique d'épidémie et de 63 décès (évitables !) suite à la non-vaccination contre la #rougeole sur les îles #Samoa (Nouvelle Zélande)

❌ En 2018 : seulement 28% d'enfants de <5 ans immunisés contre la rougeole !!
✅ Décembre 2019 : 85% des enfants de <5 ans vaccinés
Après 2013 la couverture vaccinale chez les enfants chute drastiquement de 67% à 28% !!

Il faudrait une couverture de 95% pour éliminer la rougeole d'une population

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National #Measles immunization dramatically decreased from 2013 to 2018
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🔬 9 octobre 2019 : 1 cas suspect de rougeole est identifié (ECHO)
🔬 16 octobre : épidémie confirmée avec 7 cas et 1 décès d'un enfant d'un an (Gouvernement des Samoa)
🔬 Novembre : plus de 300 cas suspectés + 3 décès
🔬13 novembre : plus de 628 cas suspectés
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