The World Health Organisation says the number of new cases of measles in Samoa is starting to plateau thanks to the aggressive response by the government.
But that urgent action comes after ten months of inaction when MMR immunisations were stopped after two babies died from a MMR vaccination mixup in July last year.
The vaccination programme only restarted in April - by which time the measles outbreak had started to take off in New Zealand.
Kim HIll spoke to the WHO spokesperson for measles in the Pacific, Jose Hagan, and began by asking how much Samoa's moratorium on immunisation had to do with the current epidemic.
