Pune, January 09: The long wait for an effective vaccine to fight swine flu in the country could be over in a few months if the intra-nasal spray made by Serum Institute of India (SII) here is tested successfully on humans next week.
After a clearance from Drug Controller General of India (DCGI), the institute which has already submitted a report on toxicity and tolerance of the vaccine in animal trials, is now in the process of identifying 50 “completely healthy” adults to undertake ‘phase- I’ human clinical trials in Pune, Delhi and Ahmedabad, according to Dr Rajiv Dhere, director, SII.
“We are on the right track as the animal trials have been found totally safe,” Prasad Kulkarni, in charge of the Human clinical trials of the vaccine, told PTI here.
–PTI