Millions of children die every year of preventable diseases because of the inefficient or inexistent refrigeration needed to get them vaccines that already exists.
The importance of the cold chain in developing countries facing limitations for the storage, transportation, and monitoring of vaccines caused by limited or unreliable access to electricity.
Not all refrigerated trucks are created equal
Today we’ll illustrate how vaccines are kept and highlight the most important aspects of long-term vaccine storage. We’ll be examining these all-important regulations in the advent of the recent Ebola outbreak spreading through Nigeria, Guinea, and other West African countries.
3.4 billion people -half of the world’s population- is at risk of contracting malaria. An estimated 627,000 deaths were due to malaria alone, over 90% of which occurred in sub-Saharan Africa. Up until recent breakthroughs in medical science, the possibility of a malaria vaccine was almost unheard of. The prospect of saving millions of lives drives many to wonder: how are vaccines made and transported?
Bureaucracy is not the point here, understanding and not repeating mistakes is
