Brian Deer
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 25 Jul
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Two nurses on one of the islands in a remote hospital had wrongly mixed a muscle relaxant into the measles, mumps, rubella, MMR vaccine.
It was a terrible mistake.
And within a matter of hours, they killed two children by accident.
As a result of the incident with the nurses, vaccination rates had fallen to a very low level.
So you had a very, very vulnerable community.
And so anti-vaccine campaigners kind of turned up, almost like tornado chasers.
They kind of wanted to be in on the action.
conspiracy theorists online were trying to suggest there was something wrong with MMR and were campaigning.
What can government do?
Then Mr Kennedy had turned up.
So he turned up in Samoa.
He was actually there.
He actually turned up on the island, yeah, and met with anti-vaccine campaigners and was photographed with them.
so it's important to to recognize that samoa is a a small community there's 200 000 people that's not a lot so when something appears on facebook an awful lot of people see it and mr kennedy appears on facebook suggesting that vaccines are an issue and the prime minister he kind of got drawn into it because he had a close family
member who had some kind of developmental issue.
And I think he'd been led to believe that it might have been caused by a vaccine.
So he would have been very easy prey, really, for someone turning up from the United States, apparently authoritatively, telling him, oh, yes, well, that could be a vaccine side effect.
He was trying to muscle his way into the thing.
And so Mr Kennedy's appearance there was a news event.
And so that helped fuel the problem that they already had.
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