§ 88. Mr. Jannerasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works, as representing the Lord President of the Council, if he will give information on the efforts being made in Africa to find a vaccine safer than the Salk vaccine, under the authority of his Department.
§ Mr. BevinsAs I explained yesterday in a reply to a similar Question by the 113W hon. Member for Glasgow, Govan (Mr. Rankin), the Medical Research Council has made arrangements for preparations of monkey tissue to be sent from the Gambia for use in poliomyelitis work in this country. It also proposes to send out an investigator to study the possibility of finding strains of virus occurring naturally among the relatively immune local population. Such strains might be suitable for inclusion in an improved form of the Salk vaccine.