Tywyn vaccine fridge 'will save lives' in hot countries

[HuckleB]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/northwestwales/hi/people_and_places/newsid_9376000/9376390.stm

"A vaccine fridge produced by a Gwynedd company will be used to prevent disease in remote areas of hot countries where there's no reliable power supply.

The SureChill fridge, developed and made by True Energy in Tywyn, can maintain the required temperatures for up to 10 days without power.

Stewart Jones of True Energy said: "This month will see the first units being shipped to Vietnam and Senegal. "It's extremely exciting because you're making a real difference."

Mr Jones, the company's international business development director, told Radio Wales: "Vaccination programmes are being carried out all over the world in remote areas."

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[xchrom]

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[HuckleB]

5. Thank you!

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2. A giant leap forward

[Tumbulu]

3. fabulous news!!!!!!

When I was a PCV in The Gambia a family of five people that I knew died of rabies.

The dog that bit them all had been vaccinated, but the vaccines had not been properly refrigerated and so they were ineffective. The treatment for the rabies were painful and many, but those doses were also not kept consistently refrigerated with all the numerous power outages. The treatments thus failed.

This should be such a tremendous improvement!

[LeftishBrit]

4. Excellent news!