Dateline Pacific for 6 November 2019

Samoa's measles outbreak has been complicated by the 2018 deaths of two babies from an incorrectly mixed measles vaccine, the country's director of health says; medical researchers have been awarded about $US2 million dollars to investigate whether Pacific people have a genetic predisposition to diseases like gout and diabetes; Oxfam Vanuatu's country director says the NGO has not been intervening in the country's politics with its involvement in a campaign to increase women's representation in parliament; Oxfam has not intervened in Vanuatu politics with its involvement in a campaign to increase women's representation in parliament, the NGO's country director says; Niue's youngsters getting water skills training under the Pacific Maritime Safety Programme.