Emphasis Preaching Journal

"With his stripes we are healed ..." A number of years ago, the Rockefeller Foundation reported on an event of much importance to the world. At the center of this story stands Asibi, a West African. It was in the time when yellow fever was running rampant everywhere. Asibi became ill, suffering from this dreaded disease. After a long and difficult struggle, he recovered, as few ever did. But some of Asibi's blood was taken and put by scientists through a process, becoming the source of the yellow fever vaccine that since 1937 has been used around the world.