Smallpox Suspect
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At Niue
Because of a suspected case smallpox at Niue early in • vember, the Union Company's ofua” had to overcarry cargo d 15 passengers. Later, the tire population was vaccinated ainst a general outbreak, but further cases had been re rted up to late November, ntacts with the young girl tient were isolated. ‘Tofua" took aboard a can ter of vaccine at Tonga and ypped it overboard to a shore 1 1 off Niue, continuing her jage on to Samoa.
Some days later the RNZAF \de two Sunderland flights m Fiji with further supplies vaccine sufficient to vaccin '■ the whole population.
Vhe Niue incident also caused mallpox scare in Fiji, and the alth Department there ad se d vaccinations. Between vember 10 and 19, there were re than 28,000 vaccinations le.