BBC News: Call to end vaccine ‘nightmare’
“Getting vaccines to children in remote parts of developing countries can be a logistical nightmare, not least because of the requirement to keep them cold. But the charity Médecins Sans Frontières says this is an unnecessary ‘nightmare’ and is calling on pharmaceutical companies and the World Health Organization to ease a blanket recommendation to keep vaccines cold…” (Mazumdar, 4/25).

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