Swine flu Vaccine Trials Given Go Ahead

Finally a step seems to have been taken in the right direction with the H1N1 Swine flu pandemic in India that has so far infected as many as 26,000 people all over the country; and we are now one step closer to the indigenous production of the Swine flu vaccine.

According to this report in the Business Standard, permission to conduct clinical trials has finally been granted to Zydus Cadila by the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI).  This, reportedly is the all important first step that will ultimately introduce the vaccine into the market for commercial use.

“We will roll out 6 million doses in the initial phase (in April),” said Pankaj R Patel, CMD, Zydus Cadila.  These doses will be rolled out at the said time assuming that all goes well with the clinical trials according to the pharma company, which has invested 80 crores in preparing the vaccine indigenously.

We plan to invest another Rs 50 crore on the clinical study and to expand our Moraiya manufacturing facility to eventually produce 12 million doses of the vaccine,” Patel added.

Meanwhile according to this Telegraph India report, Indian pacer Sreesanth, who had been infected with the Swine flu is now fully recovered and should be fit enough to return to the Indian side.

As on date, as many as twenty six thousand individuals have been infected with the deadly virus in India, and the number of fatalities resulting there from is now hovering close to 1000. As per figures computed till yesterday, 990 deaths in all have resulted from the swine flu virus in India.

A total of 275 people have died from the infection in Maharashtra. The total number of people affected with the influenza in the national capital Delhi now stands at 9,481.

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