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‘It’s broken me into a million pieces’: six months on from Samoa’s deadly measles outbreak – The Guardian

In the shadow of the epidemic that claimed the lives of 83 children, families live with constant reminders of loss. Words by Jacqui Thornton. Photographs by Tom Maguire

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Early on the morning of 6 July 2018, two mothers living in neighbouring villages on remote Savaii island in Samoa took their year-old babies for their routine measles, mumps and rubella vaccinations.…

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