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Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2019 04:19:47 EST Strypey

Anyone still unwilling to acknowledge that injecting a medication directly into a baby's bloodstream is a high risk way to administer it, with potentially fatal consequences if something goes wrong?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018725410/nurses-fatal-vaccination-error-in-samoa-was-against-parents-wishes
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  Parents of babies killed by nurses’ error urge Samoans to get immunised
  
  from RNZ
  
  Five more babies in Samoa have died after contracting measles, bringing the nation's death toll from the measles epidemic to 60. While the country's immunisation rates have never been high, a reluctance to get vaccinated has been blamed on an incident in 2018 when two babies died after they were administered botched MMR vaccines. Two nurses pleaded guilty to negligence causing manslaughter after one mixed the MMR vaccine with expired muscle relaxant anaesthetic instead of water. The concoction stopped the babies' hearts within minutes. Both nurses were jailed this year for five years. The two sets of parents are now suing Samoa's Ministry of Health. One family is demanding 10 million tala in compensation, that is just under NZ$6 million. They talk to Alex Perrottet and Logan Church.

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