alexx:
In the case of Samoa they had a little help from prominent anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr and the US embassy who appeared to facilitate his visit to speak alongside local anti-vaccine advocates.
Samoa is a particularly sad case, that can be tracked back to the death of 2 infants in 2018 after they were given immunisation that were incorrectly diluted with anaesthetic...
The suspension of the immunisation programme and the panic aroused in the community saw immunisation rates plummet (until then Samoa's rates had been pretty good) , when the NZ outbreak made its way to Samoa it found a very large cohort of very young children that had no resistance. it was tragic....