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.
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..
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.
