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2025-01-10 17:15:05 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 6403B630327C9FE45821C1A4839C68C3A537AFCEC1E3064A7A6879EE81D5B9B6
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Routine measles immunization rates fell to 31% by Nov. 2019, as a result of a vaccine tragedy in July 2018, when two infants died within minutes of being administered the MMR vaccine. The Govt. suspended the MMR immunization program for 10 months: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jpc.14752#:~:text=Routine%20measles%20immunisation%20rates%2C%20always,after%20the%20July%20administrative%20error. Govt. mismanagement: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/18/these-babies-should-not-have-died-how-the-measles-outbreak-took-hold-in-samoa
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