During confirmation hearings in January 2025, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. falsely denied that a 2019 trip he took to Samoa had anything to do with vaccines. In 2019, Samoa experienced a measles outbreak ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Samoa’s top health official on Monday denounced as “a complete lie” remarks that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made during his bid to become U.S. health secretary, rejecting his ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Samoa’s top health official on Monday denounced as “a complete lie” remarks that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made during his bid to become U.S. health secretary, rejecting his ...

There are 32 confirmed and probable cases in the U.S. territory. American Samoa has issued a public health emergency after an outbreak of measles has spread across the U.S. territory. As of Tuesday, ...

Research in Samoa and Tonga highlights an urgent need to improve mental health services in the Pacific, says University of Auckland Professor Sir Collin Tukuitonga. Surveys conducted in 2023 offer the ...

In July 2018, two young children died shortly after being injected with a contaminated measles-mumps-rubella vaccine in a clinic in Samoa. A nurse, it turned out, had mixed the vaccine powder with ...

Federal health officials are sending teams of experts to Pacific island nations in response to measles outbreaks amid concerns that a major outbreak on Samoa could heighten the spread of disease. The ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Samoa’s top ...