India comes out with cheap bird flu vaccine

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1933069.cms

When the west still waits to have the right lab conditions for developing a flu vaccine to be developed look like the Indian take the cake.

India was importing it from Netherlands. Now they have developed technology to manufacture it in India but how have they worked out the cost of the vaccine when no lab has facility to manufacture the vaccine in India?

This article is from same Times of India, which published the above news item.

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NEW DELHI: India's dream to develop an effective poultry vaccine against the H5N1 bird flu virus became a reality last month, thanks to scientists at the High-Security Animal Disease Laboratory in Bhopal. However, its search for a company that would manufacture the vaccine is far from over.

The reason: not a single Indian vaccine manufacturer dealing in influenza vaccines for poultry has a Bio Safety Level (BSL) 3 lab, required to house the live H5N1 bird flu virus in order to make the vaccine.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1930956.cms

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