Medicine & Surgery
World's largest vaccine maker (Serum Institute)
1966 onwardSerum Institute of IndiaPune vaccine plantsMaharashtra / Central India
1966
The largest vaccine manufacturer in the world by doses produced.
- Dated
- 1966
- As scholars put it
- 1966 onward
- Originator
- Serum Institute of India
- Source text
- Pune vaccine plants
- Region
- Maharashtra / Central India
- Discipline
- Medicine & Surgery
- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Verification
- Reference-cited
Fair to say
A manufacturing scale achievement; many vaccines are licensed from elsewhere.
Path to modern innovation
Central to global childhood immunisation.
Builds on
1892Transmission
Supplies UNICEF and many national programmes.
References
- 1WHO/UNICEF supply data
Further reading
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