Measles Mumps and Rubella VACCINE
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa's nurses association says safety measures in the country's hospitals have improved since the deaths of two vaccinated infants.
On Friday, two nurses were jailed for five years for administering incorrectly mixed vaccines last year.
But according to one critic, the pair are...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa's District Court will conduct a coronial inquest into the deaths of two one-year-old babies, who died after receiving the Measles Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccine in July last year at Safotu district hospital.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court sentenced two nurses to five years in...

![Leutogi Te'o (C) and Luse Tauvale (R) talking to their lawyer after entering guilty pleas [Photo: RNZ/Autagavaia Tipi Autagavaia] Leutogi Te'o (C) and Luse Tauvale (R) talking to their lawyer](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/samoa_nurses_in_courtweb.jpg?itok=qmYLBY8A)
![The parents of the two babies who died. [Photo: RNZ Pacific / Tipi Autagavaia] The parents of the two babies who died.](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/parents_of_the_two_babies_who_died_from_the_mmr_vaccine.jpg?itok=8zLTvlx5)