Smallpox In W. Pakistan
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KARACHI, December 18.
More than 100 persons, mostly children, were reported unofficially tonight to have died in an outbreak of smallpox in West Pakistan. Authorities in the town of Nawabshah, about 200 miles from here, ordered vaccination of all travellers arriving there.
The official death toll in the epidemic, which started to spread nine days ago, was eight Extra medical teams were vaccinating Mawabshah’s population of 64,000 and nearly half had been treated by tonight Meanwhile, in the East Pakistan town of Narayangan two persons were reported to have died, and more than 60 were in hospital in an outbreak of cholera.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31247, 20 December 1966, Page 11
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