India plans to increase stockpiles of the anti-influenza drug Tamiflu or its generic version by 10-fold, from one million to 10 million currently, Bloomberg reported, citing Vineet Choudhary, joint secretary, Ministry of Health.
India has also received quotations for supply of the drug from Ranbaxy Laboratories, Cipla, Hetero Drugs and the Indian unit of Roche Holding AG, he said.
With the global swine flu virus spread seemingly not under control, the Indian distributor of a recently started unique air purification system has approached the government with an invention claimed to stop the infection
AGARTALA/IMPHAL April 30: Tripura Government has sounded an alert in the state to check an outbreak of the deadly swine flu, official sources said today. The decision to issue the alert was taken last night at a meeting chaired by principal secretary of the Health department Yash Pal Singh.Two health directors S R Debbarma and R K Dhar were also present at the meeting.
"Twenty four doctors are already on duty at BIA to screen international passengers", Regional Director Health & Family Welfare Services, Dr Anbazhagan said.
April 30: As swine flu panic gripped the city, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has served notice to pig breeders to take their animals away from human habitations.
The city has over three dozen pig breeding centres and a swine population of 20,000. Pigs are reared mainly by the Erukala community as a livelihood.
The World Health Organization said Thursday that a new flu strain continued to spread, particularly in Mexico and the U.S., but refrained from declaring a global pandemic even as more countries confirmed cases.
Diversification of livestock breeds in commercial animal farms and mass production of strain-specific vaccines can help fight diseases like swine flu
Business Standard / New Delhi April 30, 2009, 0:37 IST
