Mr. Creech Jonesasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he has received any recent report from the Yellow Fever Research Institute at Entebbe, Uganda, on the control of disease in East Africa; and whether he can indicate the success of the work done to prevent yellow fever among military personnel?
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§ Mr. Emrys-EvansCo-ordination of research on yellow fever in Africa is centred in the Yellow Fever Research Institute at Entebbe, Uganda, which is a unit of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation. The staff of the Institute has carried out immunity test surveys of groups of persons in Uganda, Northern Rhodesia, Kenya, Tanganyika Territory, the Sudan, the Belgian Congo, Somalia and Eritrea, and the results have been circulated to the Governments concerned. Research on possible reservoir hosts of yellow fever virus and on aedes and other potential mosquito vectors of yellow fever is being continued. The executive work of the control of yellow fever is the responsibility of the Colonial Governments and the Service authorities who are advised by and receive copies of the reports of the Director of the Institute and the London Inter-departmental Control Committee. The various control measures which have been introduced are designed particularly to prevent the possibility of an outbreak of yellow fever such as occurred in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in 1940–41. It is satisfactory to relate that no case of yellow fever among military personnel in East Africa has occurred.