WELLINGTON/SYDNEY (Reuters) - The small Pacific island nation of Samoa has closed schools and is restricting travel ahead of the Christmas holiday season as the death toll from a measles outbreak ...

British doctors and nurses are sacrificing a relaxing Christmas with friends and family to help save lives in a deadly measles outbreak on the other side of the world. The Pacific island of Samoa ...

Ueli Sasagi on an earlier trip to Samoa. This Christmas, his family have decided to postpone their trip due to the deadly measles outbreak. Photo / Supplied This Christmas will be tinged with ...

Samoa and Christmas Island were followed an hour later by New Zealand and some parts of Australia after two hours. Japan, South Korea and North Korea ushered in 2014 an hour earlier than Manila.

Samoa has been in a state of emergency since late October because of the measles epidemic, which has tragically claimed 68 lives, 57 of those under the age of 4. I was there in September with The ...

The small Pacific island nation of Samoa has closed schools and is restricting travel ahead of the Christmas holiday season as the death toll from a measles outbreak tops 50, in the latest flare ...

British doctors and nurses are sacrificing a relaxing Christmas with friends and family to help save lives in a deadly measles outbreak on the other side of the world. The Pacific island of Samoa ...

British doctors and nurses are sacrificing a relaxing Christmas with friends and family to help save lives in a deadly measles outbreak on the other side of the world. The Pacific island of Samoa ...

The Pacific island nation of Samoa has closed schools and is restricting travel ahead of the Christmas holiday season as the death toll from a measles outbreak tops 50.