"It is a race against time to deliver the vaccine before it overheats in the equatorial sun. Nine hours later, and shortly after sundown, the team arrives with their precious cargo in Boso Manzi, the nearest town to Macau. The fleet of motorcycle drivers wearily unload cool-boxes into MSF’s temporary warehouse – a white tent lined with refrigerators powered by a series of generators. After checking the 2,900 vials are intact, the temperate log for each cool-box is plugged into a computer. Seconds later, a graph appears, showing every change in temperature since leaving the manufacturer’s warehouse in India. This is just the first phase of a herculean effort. Over the next 10 days, the vials will be loaded back onto the motorbikes and transported to villages such as Macau, and deeper into the forest, to reach children missed in previous vaccination efforts. After overcoming logistical challenges in reaching remote communities in the DRC, the cost per vaccine increases five-fold, according to Sodjinou."
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Murray, Lisa. "Measles: In Ebola's shadow, a quiet killer is on a rampage in DRC”. Al Jazeera. (7 April 2020). Archived from the original on 10 May 2020. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
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