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
Early on the morning of 6 July 2018, two mothers living in neighbouring villages on remote Savai’i island in Samoa took their year-old babies for their routine measles, mumps and rubella vaccinations.
The MMR vaccinations were safe but the nurses administering them – an investigation would later find – wrongly mixed the vaccine with an expired anaesthetic instead of water. Minutes after each injection, the babies stopped breathing.
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