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Says Yaba vaccine lab evokes nostalgia to patriotic Nigerians
Nigeria was among the countries in Africa that frantically produced a Yellow fever vaccine and was able to isolate the first human virus in a makeshift laboratory in Lagos. In 1925, the Rockefeller Foundation had established the West Africa Yellow Fever Commission to research yellow fever and was headquartered in Lagos with a laboratory in Yaba in Lagos and Accra. During the research, a yellow fever survivor named Asibi from the small town of Kpeve, Ghana provided his own blood for the research. From Asibi’s blood the yellow fever virus called the “Asibi strain” was isolated.