A shot too late
Little point vaccinating against swine flu now
Little point vaccinating against swine flu now
Pune Vials mainly for high-risk groups like medical practitioners, paramedics The imported vaccine against H1N1 virus will arrive in Pune and other parts of the state this weekend. These are mainly for the high-risk group of medical practitioners and paramedical staff who have been dealing with patients infected with H1N1 virus.
New Delhi:Pune-based Serum India
Pune Four centres to take part, two in city The Serum Institute of India will begin phase II and III human clinical trials of the nasal spray vaccine against the H1N1 virus at two sites in Pune and three other centres on Monday. The virus has claimed 201 lives in Pune itself.
GANDHINAGAR: More than three people died of swine flu in Gujarat every single day of January this year, according to a revelation made in the Gujarat Assembly on Thursday. And this, after the state government invoked the Epidemic Control Act for the first time on August 18 last year.
New Delhi: The country
Imported Vaccines Have Passed Safety Test New Delhi: Mass vaccination against the deadly H1N1 swine flu virus are likely to begin in India next week. The 1.5 million doses of vaccines imported by the government from Sanofi Pasteur have passed the safety test.
Azad asks young doctors to opt for postings in rural areas The vaccine has reached the human clinical trial stage 68 students receive degrees at NIMHANS convocation Bangalore:An indigenously developed vaccine against influenza could be a month away, according to Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad.
A 30-year-old patient of swine flu was admitted in the Indira Gandhi Medical College and Hospital in Shimla on Tuesday. Roshan Lal, a resident of Rohru, had got his swab sample tested, which confirmed swine flu, said officials of the health department
New Delhi: Even as several countries including India have started to question the seriousness of the H1N1 swine pandemic, the World Health Organisation has now come out with a new warning
Over the last one week, the number of swine flu cases reported in Delhi per day ranged between 0 and 4. While the rising mercury has helped the government contain the H1N1 virus, experts maintain the city has developed a
Even as the swine flu scare fades, the civic-run Kasturba Hospital on Wednesday inaugurated a testing facility for H1N1 at its laboratory. However, civic authorities say that the facility would be useful for testing any kind of influenza virus or bacteria, not just H1N1.
Mumbai: Hand sanitiser is a common household name, thanks to last year
The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended on Thursday that the pandemic A(H1N1) virus should be used for making seasonal influenza vaccines in the northern hemisphere.
Pune-based vaccine manufacturer Serum Institute of India (SII) is looking at a mid-April date for the launch of their H1N1 nasal drop vaccine. The injectable variety of the vaccine will be available only in May. The SII, which recently submitted the phase I clinical trial safety reports to the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI), began the vaccine development programme in mid-2009.
Pune The State health department has registered two more deaths due to the HINI virus, including a 10-month-old baby and a 38-year-old woman. This takes the death toll due to swine flu to 180.
Off Sarkhej highway on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, Solapur highway in Pune, NH 7 near Whitefield in Bangalore, Ambala-Chandigarh highway at Lalru--steel-and-glass buildings dot the landscape. From the outside they look like archetypical expressions of new-age planning.
Rajkot: Three more swine flu deaths were reported from Saurashtra in last 24 hours. While a girl died at PDU Hospital in the city, two persons died at Bhavnagar
Biotech major Feb. 2: Biotech major Bharat Biotech International hopes to bring out swine (H1N1) vaccine in April. The city-based biotech firm was one of the three firms that the government had selected for developing India's indigenous swine flu vaccine. The other two are Serum Institute of India and Panacea Biotech..
Bindu Shajan Perappadan NEW DELHI: Still enjoying a breather from the slew of swine flu cases reported until a few weeks ago, doctors in the Capital now warn that with the season changing the relief might not last long.