Brian Deer
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 25 Jul
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Well, I arrived in December 2019 in the middle of an outbreak of measles, which was absolutely appalling in its extent.
83 people died, overwhelmingly children.
In fact, on the day I arrived, the tally was 48 children dead.
That was children aged four or under.
And it was raging through the island unstopped.
Arriving at the airport, there were emergency supplies being brought in, ventilators, because you need special small-sized ventilators for children, were being hauled in from different parts of the world.
And I set off talking to mothers who'd lost their children, and it was a really, really quite a striking experience, I can tell you.
I remember it was in the wet season and there was rain just hammering on the roof in open-fronted housing.
And the mother took me through how she had been finally told that her daughter had died.
She was under two years old.
The body was presented to her in a blanket and they took her home in the back of the car and...
dug a hole by the kitchen door and buried her there and put concrete over it.
It was almost Christmas and they put fairy lights up.
One mother, she lost three children to measles.
Three children.
Even now it comes back to me, like these years later.
I mean, to experience that, where they were holding group funerals, they were ordering special small-sized coffins, and they were having funerals going on, big traditional funerals going on, every day of the week during that period.
OK, that must have been very confronting.
Can you explain a bit about why the community there was so vulnerable to this outbreak and how RFK Junior was connected?
What had happened was the year before...
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