Anti-Vaxxer Arrested As Samoa Battles Measles Epidemic
December 6, 2019
3:50 pm
Samoan authorities warned Friday that anti-vaccine propaganda would not be tolerated, after a social media campaigner was arrested for opposing a mass immunisation drive aimed at containing the Pacific nation’s deadly measles epidemic.
At least 63 people, mostly children, have died since the outbreak began in mid-October, with the crisis blamed on so-called “anti-vaxxers” convincing parents that immunisations were dangerous.
Samoa was on Friday enduring its second day of a lockdown as government and aid workers spread out across the nation of 200,000 people to vaccinate as many as possible.
But Communications Minister Afamasaga Rico Tupai said anti-vaxxers spreading …
