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Why is the Samoan Measles narrative relevant  today? 

There was a supposed outbreak of measles in Samoa in September 2019.  

The story provided to the World Press was that a child on holidays from New Zealand unknowingly had created an epidemic.

A ‘case’ of measles had been reported in the hospitals, which was taken to mean a spread had occurred. 

This was reported to be “catastrophic” because there was a low uptake of vaccinations for Measles. 

The uptake was hovering around 30% after the deaths of two babies after vaccination in 2018 

Two nurses were charged with manslaughter for supposedly a mix-up in vaccine preparation.

The President had suspended the use of the vaccine for 10 months against the WHO recommendations. 

The stage was set to play out a sequence for a Pandemic. 

Media Hype created the fear.

Lockdowns created the political response.

Vaccines were touted as the solution.

But in reality there were about 5700 cases and 83 deaths. 

The World was prepped and triggered into believing into the fear of contagion and the necessity of response. 

Part of the response was the attack on those who questioned what was going on. 

Edwin Tamasese, the chair of a coconut farmers’ collective, highlighted deaths in remote islands as occurring after  the vaccine, thus challenging its effectiveness and safety . 

The attack on Tamasese was part of an attempt to blame the death toll on mis-information from so-called ‘anti-vaxxers’. 

Questions were then raised about the quality of the Indian vaccine. 

At no time was RFK Jnr involved in these events. 

The sequence of events coincidentally paralleled what ultimately occurred during COVID. 

Conspiracy Theorists claim that the Samoan Measles ‘Outbreak’ was a trial run for all the COVID measures implemented on us only moths later. 

Here is a collation of reports below from the most recent back to the early history:

 

10 March, 2025 – The Measles Hoax – Exposing the virus delusion.

The measles virus began as an imagined construct to explain why people get sick. A particle was not observed first and subsequently a virus theory was developed.

As described by a 1924 article, researchers were unable to consistently observe any microbe in the bodily fluids of people with measles. Despite this, they presupposed that a minute pathogen existed that could explain sickness—what came thereafter arose to fulfil the presuppositional premise.

 

 

5 January, 2025 – Fact-checking Mainstream Media: Did RFK Jr. Cause Measles Outbreak in Samoa That Killed 83 Children?

Some media reports suggested that if Kennedy wins the appointment for HHS secretary, outbreaks like the one in Samoa will likely occur in the U.S.

“It was a disaster and it was caused in large part by RFK Jr.,” Hawaii Gov. Josh Green told MSNBC news anchor Jonathan Capehart. “If he becomes our lead health official, you are going to see outbreaks like this in rural communities and cities across America. Children will die or have severe disabilities.”

However, a brief look into the timeline alone of events in Samoa shows that it “absolutely does not make sense” to blame the measles outbreak on Kennedy, according to Dr. Vinay Prasad, a hematologist-oncologist and professor at the University of California, San Francisco.

 

19 November, 2022 – The Killing Fields of Samoa

So let’s then turn to Samoa (and neighbouring Fiji and Tonga) in 2019. Here is the timeline

April 2019 – MMR relaunched in Samoa after a pause on the vaccination program in 2018 after two vaccine-related deaths of children. The vaccine program was poorly received by the Samoan population and uptake was low.
1st Oct 2019 – UNICEF delivered 135,000 doses of measles vaccines to Fiji, 110,500 doses of measles vaccines to Samoa (as well as supplies of vitamin A) and 12,000 doses of measles vaccines to Tonga
18th Oct 2019 – Samoa declares a measles outbreak.
24th Oct 2019 – Tonga declares a measles outbreak.
7th Nov 2019 – Fiji declares a measles outbreak (archive here)
15th Nov 2019 – State of emergency declared in Samoa after 1000 cases and 15 deaths (of which 14 were children under five)

Immediately the propaganda machine moves into action making the world believe that the problem is the fact that Samoa – for one year only – had a lower vaccination rate than the neighbouring islands…

 

23 December, 2019 – Samoa Measles Emergency Extended

The MMR vaccine used in Samoa is produced by the Serum Institute of India. It has been approved and certified by the World Health Organization (WHO). It is an attenuated (weakened) live virus vaccine that is sold under the brand name Tresivac.^8 9 10 11

Tresivac is contraindicated for people who are allergic to eggs, gelatin and neomycin or who have had a previous life-threatening reaction to any vaccine containing measles, mumps or rubella viruses. The Serum Institute’s MMR vaccine is also contraindicated for anyone who suffers from a chronic illness such as asthma or other breathing disorder, diabetes, kidney disease, or blood cell disorders such as anemia; or from severe immune suppression caused by disease (such as cancer, HIV, or AIDS), or who is receiving certain medicines such as steroids, chemotherapy or radiation. It is also contraindicated for pregnant women.¹²

According to the Serum Institute, there may be a problem with giving Tresivac to people with the following conditions: thrombocytopenia purpura (easy bruising or bleeding); active tuberculosis infection; a history of seizures; a neurologic disorder or disease affecting the brain (or if this was a reaction to a previous vaccine); and a weak immune system caused by disease, bone marrow transplant, or by using certain medicines or receiving cancer treatments. The vaccine might also cause problems for anyone who has received an immune globulin or other blood product within the past year or who has received a previous MMR vaccine within the previous 28 days.¹²

In October 2019, a one-year-old girl died two days after being administered Tresivac at a clinic in Cuba

 

15 December, 2019 – Measles in Samoa: Why are So Many Dying?

Samoa Vaccine Measles Deaths

In 2019, the leaders of Samoa closed its borders to travelers who did not have proof of vaccination records, including its own citizens. That hardline stance against measles means that for many American Baby Boomers who contracted measles as a child and have natural, true immunity and are either living in, or traveling to, Samoa must be given a jab against an infection their immune system had already conquered. The inoculation would not be solely for measles, but would also include a faulty attenuated mumps virus.

With more than fifty measles deaths claimed by the health experts in Samoa with the current outbreak, what is sadly no longer reported are the two deaths from MMR that rocked the Pacific Island nation in 2018. Two babies, less than two years of age, died shortly after receiving the MMR injection, causing an uproar. The Samoa prime minister “expressed his condolences” to the families and forced the country to temporarily pull the MMR vaccine from the market.

To the gasps of those who have had children injured by the MMR vaccine, Samoan authorities did not investigate what was wrong with the vaccine. Instead, authorities focused their probe on two nurses, charging them with two counts of manslaughter and declaring “nothing was wrong with the vaccine.” Month’s later, a still angry mother of one of the victims demanded “answers” for the death of her child. She clearly doesn’t believe the line of propaganda being sold to her as truth.

 

 

 15 December, 2019 – Vitamin A Shipped to Samoa 

Within Samoa, malnutrition is a “growing health concern, particularly for children.”¹⁵ Vitamin A treatment costs two or three pennies per dose⁹ and unlike vaccines, can be administered easily by parents or other providers because it does not require special training or refrigeration. While the vitamin A shipments by citizens to reduce complications in those with measles infections are disparaged in the press and social media, UNICEF has sent 30,000 vitamin A tablets along with 110,500 doses of measles containing vaccine to the island of Samoa.¹⁶

 

 

8 December, 2019 –   Samoan Government Arrests “Anti-Vaxxer” as Measles Campaign Widens                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Dec. 5, 2019, the Samoan government reportedly arrested a “vocal antivaccination campaigner” and charged him with “incitement” as the government widens a mass measles vaccination campaign in the small South Pacific island nation of about 200,000 people. More than 4,300 measles cases with 63 deaths have been reported since the measles outbreak began in mid-October.¹

¹ Al Jazeera (English). Samoa arrests anti-vaxxer as immunization drive continues. MSN Dec. 5, 2019.

 

Wikipedia – 2019 Samoa measles outbreak

Edwin Tamasese, a Samoan anti-vaccination activist with no medical training who was also the chair of a coconut farmers’ collective,^[8] was charged with “incitement against a government order”.^[44]

He had posted online comments like “Enjoy your killing spree.”^[8] He encouraged people to refuse immunisation, as he believed the vaccine caused measles,^[45] and even discouraged life-saving antibiotics.^[8] Tamasese faced up to two years in prison.^[8]

 

 

9 July, 2018 – Two Infants in Samoa Die After Getting the MMR Vaccine

Samoan government health officials have issued a recall of the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine after two infants, a girl and a boy, died on July 6, 2018 just hours after being given the combination vaccine at Safotu Hospital on the island of f Savai’i in Samoa. ^1 2 3 4

Testing is underway by the Samoan Ministry of Health to determine if the vaccines caused the deaths of the babies. Local police are conducting a separate investigation into the two cases.^1 2 3 4

“We’ve ceased and sent out a directive to stop and cease all vaccinations of the children with the MMR,”¹ said Samoa’s Director General of Health Leausa Toleafoa Dr. Take Naseri. 

 

 

12 July, 2018 – Samoa seizes all MMR vaccines after two infants die minutes after receiving the vaccine

TV1 in Samoa is reporting that two infants have died within minutes of receiving the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine.

Tala Fou brings you breaking news on the death of two young children both aged 1-year-old from the villages of Safotu and Sasina in Savaii. Both children died within minutes of being vaccinated with the MMR vacine at Safotu Hospital on Friday morning the 6th of July.

Our News Reporter Alisa Faamaoni met with both families in Savaii today. The parents of the first child Marietta and Samuelu Tuisuesue of Sasina explained in detail to Tala Fou that within three minutes of their 1-year-old daughter Lannacallystah Samuelu being injected with the MMR vaccine by a nurse she was dead. (Source.)

 

25 November, 2019 – Samoa’s Measles Outbreak and Response

Clearly, the nutritional status of a country matters when it comes to lowering mortality from measles. This has certainly been the case in the United States, where measles mortality rates in the U.S. dropped by more than 90 percent during the first half of the 20th century prior to the introduction of the first measles vaccine in 1963.¹⁹

Deaths from measles had decreased from 21 deaths per 1000 reported cases during 1911-1912 to less than one death per 1000 reported cases in 1953-1962. This improved measles morality rate was owed to several factors unrelated to the measles vaccine, including better sanitation and living conditions, as well as better nutrition and improved access to health care.¹⁹

¹⁹ Cáceres M. The Story of Measles’ Sharp Decline. The Vaccine Reaction Apr. 12, 2016.

 

 

12 April, 2016 –  The Story of Measles’ Sharp Decline

In their book, Dissolving Illusions, Bystrianyk and Dr. Humphries noted that the incidence of measles was also on a downward trend—albeit a much slower rate than the decline in mortality—before the 1963 measles vaccine. ⁸ We know, for example, that in 1954 there were 682,720 reported cases of measles in the U.S.¹³ This was followed by 555,156 cases in 1955; 611,936 in 1956; 486,799 in 1957; 763,094 in 1958; 406,162 in 1959; 441,703 in 1960; 423,919 in 1961; 481,530 in 1962; and 385,156 in 1963.¹³

While the number of reported cases of measles went up and down from year to year, the overall trend line was downward. In fact, the trend line had been going down since 1941, when the number of reported cases totaled 894,134.¹³

Interestingly, in 1964 (the year after the introduction of the first killed measles vaccine), the number of reported cases of measles actually went up to 458,083.¹³

Bystrianyk and Dr. Humphries reasonably ask, “Was measles slowly becoming less prevalent anyway?”⁸

We know that measles can be sub-clinical 30 percent of the time, and the death rate had already plummeted. Like smallpox, was the disease slowly burning out? Was the rise in breastfeeding and improved nutrition contributing to fewer diagnosed cases? How many cases that were recorded as measles based on a clinical diagnosis really other viruses? Can we at all trust measles incidence statistics in the first place?⁸

If the trend continued as seen in the measles incidence graph, then measles incidence would have hit zero in the year 2000 without any vaccine program. Coincidentally, the year 2000 is the same year the CDC declared measles eliminated from the United States.⁸

 

More on Measles:

28 February, 2025 – Latest US Measles Outbreaks The Result of Failed Vaccines | Principia Scientific Intl.

A long history of measles vaccine failures
For over 25 years, outbreaks have been reported in populations with vaccination rates exceeding 95 percent, undermining the mainstream assumption that vaccines are the singular solution to measles control.

Here is a documented historical record of such vaccine failures:

• 1985, Texas, U.S.: A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1987 analyzed a measles outbreak in Corpus Christi, Texas, where 99 percent of students were vaccinated and more than 95 percent were immune. The researchers concluded: “Outbreaks of measles can occur in secondary schools, even when more than 99 percent of the students have been vaccinated and more than 95 percent are immune.”

• 1985, Montana, U.S.: An article in the American Journal of Epidemiology examined an outbreak of 137 measles cases in Montana, despite a 98.7 percent vaccination rate. The researchers stated: “This outbreak suggests that measles transmission may persist in some settings despite appropriate implementation of the current measles elimination strategy.”

• 1988, Colorado, U.S.: A measles outbreak at a Colorado college infected 84 students, even though over 98 percent had documented immunity due to strict vaccination policies. Researchers concluded that “measles outbreaks can occur among highly vaccinated college populations.”

• 1989, Quebec, Canada: Initially blamed on low vaccine coverage, a study published in the Canadian Journal of Public Health concluded: “Incomplete vaccination coverage is not a valid explanation for the Quebec City measles outbreak.”

• 1991-1992, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: A study published in the Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical found that 76.4 percent of measles cases in this outbreak had been vaccinated before their first birthday.

• 1992, Cape Town, South Africa: A study in the South African Medical Journal documented an outbreak where 91 percent of children were vaccinated, and vaccine efficacy was only 79 percent. The researchers concluded that primary and secondary vaccine failure contributed to the outbreak.

These are just a handful of examples from an extensive body of literature documenting measles outbreaks occurring in highly vaccinated populations — clear evidence that vaccine-induced immunity is neither lifelong nor consistently effective.

 

Vaccines – Efficacy

 

Natural Immunity

 

Shining a light on measles

This article is about measles alone. The combination MMR shot will be discussed separately. 

Highlights 

• A long-held notion asserts that normal childhood illnesses ultimately strengthens the immune system; could that be true? 

• We’ve been taught to fear illness, but should we? 

• Shockingly, some scientists question what measles is. 

• What does it mean to stop or eliminate measles? Do we really want to? 

• Public health officials had come to a consensus that measles was a mild disease we should live with, but then decided measles was “important” when the vaccine was licensed, for the sole reason that we now had a product to sell for it. 

 

 

 

Measles Fact Sheet 

https://healthfreedominstitute.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Measles-Fact-Sheet.pdf