Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Yankunan tsibirin Pacific da yawa sun sha wahala sosai. Cutar ta same su daga New Zealand, wanda ya yi jinkiri wajen aiwatar da matakan hana jiragen ruwa, kamar, dauke da mura daga barin tashar jiragen ruwa. Daga New Zealand, mura ta kai Tonga (ta kashe kashi 8% na yawan jama'a), Nauru (16%), da Fiji (5%, mutane 9,000). Samoa ta Yamma, da a dā ake kira Samoa ta Jamus, wadda New Zealand ta mallaka ita ce ta fi shan wahala
a shekara ta 1914. 90% na yawan jama'a sun kamu da cutar; 30% na manya maza, 22% na manya mata, da 10% na yara sun mutu. Akasin haka, Gwamna John Martin Poyer ya hana mura ta kai Samoa ta Amirka ta wajen hana ta shiga. Cutar ta yadu cikin sauri ta hanyar manyan zamantakewar jama'a tsakanin 'yan asalin ƙasar, saboda al'adar tattara al'adun baka daga shugabanni a kan gadon mutuwarsu; dattawan al'umma da yawa sun kamu da cutar ta wannan hanyar.