where does India stands in production of vaccine???
To tackle present situation Indian has to depend on imported vaccine from foreign countries.The Indian Biotech-pharma companies are at the race to develop the vaccine for swine flu. We pay handsomely to procure this vaccine. Countries that produce the vaccine use it domestically first.
India based companies are:
Ahmedabad-based Cadila Pharma, through cuts short manufacturing time technology which is collaborating with US-based Novavax, using Novavax's 'virus-like particles' technology.
India's first indigenous pentavalent (five-in-one) 'Comvac-5' vaccine by Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech launched in March this year. What's unique about the vaccine is that it is the only Hepatitis B vaccine in the world to be manufactured without the use of cesium chloride, a heavy metal needed to precipitate proteins. As a heavy metal, cesium chloride is a known cancer causing agent and the fact that Bharat Biotech found another safer way to purify its hepatitis-B antigen makes Comvac-5 even more special.
Anthrax, dengue and japanese encephalitis vaccines are the initiatives of WHO pre-qualified company Penacea. Bharat Biotech is also on the way.
The best one in the filed of flu is Pune based Serum Institute of India as it was already working on seasonal flu vaccine. Over 140 countries are getting it products. One out of every two children immunized in the world are by SII's vaccine as it claims.
The first Human testing of swine flu vaccine are started at this month by Novartis and Sanofi Aventis.
