Drones Deliver Vaccines On Island Nation Of Vanuatu

Drones Deliver Vaccines On Island Nation Of Vanuatu

This week, 1-month-old Joy was vaccinated against hepatitis and tuberculosis. Those are standard childhood vaccinations, but there was something definitely non-standard about the way they reached Joy. They arrived by drone. Joy and her mom, Julie Nowai, live on Erromango, part of Vanuatu, an island …

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