And keeping anything cold -- in the scorching African heat. . . is a daunting challenge. Doubly so, when the roads the heavy trucks must traverse are in many cases, for the last hundred miles, or so. . . little more than motor-bike paths, deeply rutted, and mostly overgrown. A breakdown of the truck, or its refrigerant system, ruins hundreds of thousands of doses, within hours.
So -- we will keep hoping that some nation will donate a small fleet of helicopter services, to the most remote locales in northern Bas-Uélé province. Even then a clear patch to set down on will be a. . . challenge up there in the mountains. Here is the latest, in any event, from Reuters, reporting in Kinshasa, DRC:
. . .Democratic Republic of Congo will start its mpox vaccination campaign on Oct. 2, nearly a week earlier than previously planned, the head of its outbreak response said on Wednesday.
Congo is the epicentre of the ongoing mpox outbreak that the World Health Organization declared to be a global public health emergency last month, but a lack of vaccines has until now hampered efforts to curb the spread of the sometimes deadly virus. . . .
The central African country had been planning to launch vaccinations on Oct. 8 after receiving its first delivery of mpox doses last week. But health authorities now intend to start the campaign on Oct. 2, response chief Cris Kacita told Reuters.
"There are procedures that have evolved and helped reduce delays," he said, adding that the vaccination campaign will last 10 days and target only adults, including healthcare professionals, park rangers and sex workers, in Congo's six provinces. . . .
Now you know. Onward, resolutely.
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