OUTBREAK OF PLAGUE
(Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A > SAIGON, March 19. A stringent medical security has been clamped on Australian troops after an outbreak of bubonic plague in the Vung Tau Peninsula.
More than 1000 Australian troops are encamped in sandhills on the outskirts of Vung Tau, about 60 miles south-east of Saigon, at the entrance to the Saigon river, as well as crews from Royal Australian Air Force supply planes and helicopters. Until today 19 cases of plague had been reported in villages around Vung Tau and in Vung Tau itself. Medical officers said that no Vietnamese civilian had died
during the present outbreak. • They estimate It started in Vung Tau just over a week ago. As a result of the outbreak the town of Vung Tau has been declared out of bounds to all Australians. Although essential supply convoys still move through the area, movement has been kept to a minimum. All Australian troops have had their innoculatlon cards checked and all Vietnamese civilians working on the base have been innoculated and dusted with germicide powder.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31323, 20 March 1967, Page 13
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