In the Cook Islands hospitals are preparing isolation beds and notices are going up at the airport as New Zealand's measles outbreak threatens infants and tourism numbers.
Health Secretary Dr Josephine Herman says extra vaccine supplies have been ordered as authorities bring down the age of immunisation from 15months to 12months.
She says with the incubation period of up to two weeks it is possible tourists from New Zealand may come to the Cook Islands not knowing they have the illness.
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