Australia helps with cholera vaccine
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Australia announced in October the provision of 12 000 doses of cholera vaccine for use in the Pacific Islands. The vaccine was to be used mainly m the Gilbert Islands and Tuvalu, in connection with the epidemic which had earlier caused 18 deaths from cholera, with at least another 90 cases verified, in the Gilberts.
The Minister for Health, Mr Ralph Hunt, said that the vaccine had been sent in response to an urgent request from the World Health Or ganisation, transmitted through the WHO representative for the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji. The vaccine was sent from the Commonwealth S . u , m Laboratories in Melbourne, which had also recently supplied cholera vaccine to Ocean Island and Nauru.