“several Africans who had worked at the Laboratoire Medical de Stanleyville (LMS) during the 1950s. These witnesses reported that tissue culture had indeed been prepared at the LMS, that it had been prepared “mainly from chimpanzees”, and that moreover the head of the virology department, Paul Osterrieth, had been “making the polio vaccines” in his lab.”

No one has called Jeremiah Wright a liar. They have called him a nut and a hate monger but not a liar. Beneath all of the hype there is a serious question, what if in our use of simian tissue for vaccine cell culture there occurred a mutation that allowed a virus to jump from species to species. Particularly species within the family. Despite the protestations of the Royal Society there seems to be reasonable doubt as to whether or not chimpanzee tissue was used to culture Sabin’s vaccine.