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Many vaccinations rendered useless due to poor refrigeration

Posted: Dec 5th 2007 5:30PM by Brian White
Filed under: Health in the Media

It would be quite frustrating to hear that the flu shot you received recently contained bad vaccines and you needed another shot. That's precisely what is happening in the U.S., as a new report from the CDC says that thousands of regular vaccinations are ruined annually due to poor refrigeration.

The range of temperatures many vaccines receive renders them invalid, unbeknown to the recipient or the supplier. Nice quality control we have there, eh?

Understrength vaccines are only one problem from this situation -- as dud vaccines don't adequately protect those who receive shots and doses -- but it makes for quite a bit of unneeded waste every year, to the tune of $20 million or more.

Tags: refrigerates medicine, RefrigeratesMedicine, vaccinations, vaccine expiration, VaccineExpiration

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