Yes - single dose syringes address all of it except for refrigeration. Unless you use lyophilized vaccines, you'll not get around that one.
And the price on single dose syringes has really gone down in the last 20 yrs.

When a vaccine undergoes significant formulation changes, you must relicense it, typically involving clinical studies which are _VERY_ expensive. Its just easier and cheaper to keep making it the old way. Like I said in my earlier post - this isn't really an issue for vaccines made in developed countries: US, Japan, Europe, you won't find vaccines made there using thimerisol anytime in the last 20 yrs.

I've worked at a vaccines manufacturing site for a dozen years now and have helped produce hundreds of millions of doses of pediatric vaccines - I've never seen a milligram of thimerosal at our plant or any other in our supply chain. Most current technology manufacturing plants stopped using it decades ago and this really is only an issue for old facilities making old vaccines that they can't relicense using new technology.

Technologies like single dose syringes and barrier/isolator filling lines have made preservatives largely unnecessary and even for those that still use them, there are better choices like EDTA.

Nothing more really needs to be said.

The heck with Steve Jobs - I want to be Darth Vader!!!

Its great that it was there for some ground breaking radio astronomy work, the Apollo 11 landing, but that is also continues to provide good scientific data!
I'm sure the core receivers and computer systems have been replaced/upgraded a dozen times over the years, but I'd bet some old engineer on site probably still has the original vacuum tube signal processing gear sitting in a back room.
Tip of the Fozzies to ya.
Ozzy, Ozzy, Ozzy, Oi, Oi, Oi!!!

Kevin was interviewed by Leo Laport and Tom Merritt this week on their TWIT show, Triangulation: http://twit.tv/tri21
It was really fun to listen too. His McDonalds story had me rolling.
Just based on the interview with Leo and Tom, I'm getting this book.

Awesome!
I smoke stuff about once a month and this will really save me some time and effort.
Especially when doing a big cut like a brisket or a whole turkey.

OK, so I'm sitting in a cheapass hotel in Daytona (hotels any closer are insanely expensive) keeping my fingers crossed that this time, the third time that I've driven down to the armpit of the US to watch a shuttle launch, this time, its gonna go.

you weather mavens can go f^#K yourselves - IT WILL LAUNCH THIS TIME!!!!

OK - off to bed, got to get up at 3AM to get to the KSC visitors center before they close it in........

Wish me luck, please...................

I guess the rabbits finally found a way of getting even with all those cars that ran over their cousins.
Lets hope the squirrels and prairie dogs don't decide to get even as well!!!

Lets see:
Make sure you have a strong Admin password on your router and don't surf p0rn/warez sites.
Thank you Captain Obvious!

Only bigger insult would be if he was pulling for the Lions...