WASHINGTON, Nov 15, 2012 - In a breakthrough for the fight against meningitis in poor countries, researchers say the WHO has ruled that a key vaccine can be transported or stored for up to four days without refrigeration.
The previously-approved vaccine is aimed at helping in the so-called “Meningitis Belt,” which stretches across the African Sahel from Senegal to Ethiopia, where epidemics of the deadly infection regularly break out.
In these countries, where reliable electricity is
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