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Jayanarayan Vyas, the Gujarat Health and Family welfare minister broker ranks with the centre with his statement that the swine flu virus strain had mutated, albeit partially According to him the H1N1 virus responsible for the swine flu outbreak has mutated, at least partially, even though the Union Health Ministry ruled out the same. This is the first time, that an official has admitted that there could be a chance that the virus has mutated into a deadlier strain.
Vyas said that samples of the virus sent to the Pune-based National Institute of Virology (NIV) by the state government has confirmed the mutation. ?Normally this virus spreads during the cold season (winter). This time the virus seems to have partially mutated and has become resistant to high temperatures. That is one reason why you are seeing an outbreak now (in summer),? Vyas told reporters. ?The mutation is, however, very mild,? he said, adding there are chances that some of the H1N1 vaccines developed by pharma companies could be rendered ineffective because of this mutation.
Re: Gujarat health minister says swine flu virus strain has ?mutated partially?
Swine flu has mutated, vaccine is not sufficient: Guj health minister
This year's season of Swine Flu has already had three casualties in Gujarat. More importantly, the H1N1 virus, which was so far thought of to be a winter malaise, has claimed its victims in the summer.
"It seems that the H1N1 virus has mutated as it has become resistant to hot temperatures. Even the HINI vaccine is not sufficient any more. The job of a vaccine is to raise resistance levels of human beings to fight against virus," said state health minister, Jaynarayan Vyas while addressing the Gujarat Pharma Conclave, a pre-Vibrant Gujarat 2013 Summit event.
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Patel, however, claimed that he doesn't believe the virus has mutated and added that according to WHO norms, there are no changes in virus. "As per WHO norms, we have not found any change in the H1N1 virus. Hence, the vaccine has remained the same. We don't know how this (mutation) has happened. We cannot exactly comment on what has happened (on the virus and how it killed three people in Gujarat in the summer)," he said, adding, "We have been continuously researching on it."
