5 Aug 2025

Dengue fever outbreak in Samoa claims children's lives

From Nine To Noon, 10:35 am on 5 August 2025
Image shows a female Aedes aegypti mosquito completing the activity of obtaining a blood-meal from a human host.

Photo: Supplied/ CDC Public Health Image Library - Frank Hadley Collins

Authorities in Samoa say the dengue fever death toll now officially stands at four - with the fifth death being deemed a probable case.

All those who have died are children.

An outbreak of the mosquito borne disease was declared in Samoa in mid-April.

Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific's news editor, joins Susie with the latest.