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Pacific Islands Monthly, 19 September 1946Vol. XVII, No. 2

Against Malaria

p. 32 · Read in the full issue

Success of French Inoculation Against Malaria

AT a meeting of the permanent medi cal committee of UNRRA, the report presented by the committee of ex perts was unanimously accepted. This report recognises the “international im portance” of French techniques of in oculation against malaria. The serum was prepared by the Pasteur Institute at Dakar (West Africa).

The permanent medical committee has recognised the Pasteur Institute at Dakar as the international centre of the fight against malaria.

Until now, the Americans refused to admit the claims of the French tech nique of inoculation against malaria. As a result of exhaustive experiments undertaken by the American medical authorities, however, they have modified their point of view. —French Official News.