Indian Immunologicals Limited or IIL is a vaccine manufacturing facility in Hyderabad and Ooty

Ootacamund

Ootacamund , is a town, a municipality and the district capital of the Nilgiris district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Ootacamund is a popular hill station located in the Nilgiri Hills...

 and a biotechnology research and development organisation. IIL is one of the largest vaccine

Vaccine

A vaccine is a biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism, and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe or its toxins...

 manufacturers in the world. It was established in 1983 by the National Dairy Development Board.

It is noted for developing veterinary and human vaccines for foot-and-mouth disease

Foot-and-mouth disease

Foot-and-mouth disease or hoof-and-mouth disease is an infectious and sometimes fatal viral disease that affects cloven-hoofed animals, including domestic and wild bovids...

, rabies

Rabies

Rabies is a viral disease that causes acute encephalitis in warm-blooded animals. It is zoonotic , most commonly by a bite from an infected animal. For a human, rabies is almost invariably fatal if post-exposure prophylaxis is not administered prior to the onset of severe symptoms...

, bacterial vaccines, canine vaccines, hepatitis

Hepatitis

Hepatitis is a medical condition defined by the inflammation of the liver and characterized by the presence of inflammatory cells in the tissue of the organ. The name is from the Greek hepar , the root being hepat- , meaning liver, and suffix -itis, meaning "inflammation"...

, measles

Measles

Measles, also known as rubeola or morbilli, is an infection of the respiratory system caused by a virus, specifically a paramyxovirus of the genus Morbillivirus. Morbilliviruses, like other paramyxoviruses, are enveloped, single-stranded, negative-sense RNA viruses...

, MMR

MMR vaccine

The MMR vaccine is an immunization shot against measles, mumps, and rubella . It was first developed by Maurice Hilleman while at Merck in the late 1960s....

 and DPT

DPT vaccine

DPT refers to a class of combination vaccines against three infectious diseases in humans: diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus...

. It offers FMD

Foot-and-mouth disease

Foot-and-mouth disease or hoof-and-mouth disease is an infectious and sometimes fatal viral disease that affects cloven-hoofed animals, including domestic and wild bovids...

vaccines to farmers at affordable prices.

External links

• www.thehindubusinessline.com/2010/06/29/stories/2010062951350300.htm
• www.hindu.com/2010/11/30/stories/2010113055700200.htm
• iospress.metapress.com/content/1564p14k2p761772/