Samoa arrests prominent local anti-vaccination activist amid measles epidemic that has caused 63 deaths so far.
. Government officials said anti-vaccination activists had a negative impact on efforts to treat the outbreak.
"The anti-vaxxers, unfortunately, have been slowing us down," Communications Minister Afamasaga Rico Tupai said in an"We have families [where] unfortunately children passed away, only having come to the hospital as a last resort. Then we find out it is the anti-vaxx message that has got to these families that have kept their kids at home," he said.
He urged anti-vaccination activists,"Don't get in the way of government. Don't contribute to the deaths." Authorities told most workers to stay home Thursday and Friday this week as 100 mobile vaccination teams undertake a mass vaccination effort, according to 1 News. In a bid to halt the spread of the disease, officials urged people to stay at home and hang red flags outside their property if they had not been vaccinated.17,551 people were vaccinated on Thursday, and 3,089 had been vaccinated on Friday morning, the latest period for which data was available.
The World Health Organization said measles cases are surging globally, with outbreaks in all regions. There were 140,000 deaths from measles worldwide in 2018, according to figures released Thursday by WHO, mostly among children under the age of 5.
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