: Dr. Badri Narayan Patnaik, Sanofi Pasteur

Investing in R&D for identifying new diseases and vaccine development remains the top priority. Vaccines have been used in avian influenza (AI) control programs to prevent, manage, or eradicate AI from poultry and other birds. It has been observed that the best protection is produced from the humoral response against the hemagglutinin (HA) protein.

• Shahid Akhter
• ETHealthWorld
• March 22, 2021, 07:37 IShttps://health.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/policy/vaccination-is-and-will-continue-to-be-the-most-important-intervention-for-prevention-of-infectious-disease-dr-badri-narayan-patnaik-sanofi-pasteur/81560563T

Shahid Akhter, editor, ETHealthworld, spoke toDr. Badri Narayan Patnaik, Head Medical – India and South Asia at Sanofi Pasteur, to know more about the vaccine priorities during the pandemic.

• As the world fights pandemic- in order to be prepared for a health crisis, should priority be given to R&D for identifying new diseases and vaccine development?

Over the past 35 years, around 30 new infectious agents affecting humans have emerged. Most of these infective viruses are zoonotic and their…