American Samoa declares measles outbreak, closes schools

The government of American Samoa declared that the U.S. territory has an outbreak of measles, a move that will lead to the closure of public schools starting Monday and a ban on gatherings in parks.In its announcement Friday of the measles outbreak, the government says the territory has nine cases of the disease.As for the other four people who tested positive for measles, “we’re suspecting that is local transmission — meaning that it’s most likely, that some of these tra