Influenza, or flu, and air pollution are significant public health risks that impact nations around the world with large economic consequences. The authors of this paper show that increased levels of air pollution significantly increase the rate of hospitalisation for people with flu. In addition, they find that protection afforded …
The Union health ministry has kickstarted the process of vaccinating healthcare workers across the country against swine flu. According to officials in the ministry, the vaccines procured from international pharmaceutical company Sanofi Pasteurs is being distributed to the states from Mumbai and Delhi. The mass immunisation has started for those …
Confirmed to be safe for human use by the Drug Controller General of India, the first consignment of imported H1N1 vaccine manufactured by French firm Sanofi Pasteur was dispatched from Delhi to various states on Tuesday. Of the 1.5 million doses imported by the Health Ministry, about 5 lakh doses …
The UT Health department has received 10,800 doses of HINI vaccine, which would be administered on the frontline health workers in the city hospitals in the next few days. Nodal officer Dr G C Bansal said the vaccine Panenza, which they received from the Central government on Tuesday, would be …
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 …
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 …
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. State …
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. The French vaccine manufacturers submitted the results …
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. In anticipation of a second wave, …
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. Besides the pandemic A(H1N1) virus, the A(H3N2) virus and the influenza B virus should also be included in making influenza vaccines in the 2010
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 …
On january 15, the World Health Organization (who) said it would review itself to see if international health regulations were followed while recommending purchase of H1N1 influenza vaccines to member countries. This follows after a report in the Danish news daily, Information, alleged that health advisers of who are on …
