On Jan. 28, 2020, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, met President…
On Jan. 28, 2020, AbCellera confirmed that it had mobilized its pandemic response platform against the ongoing outbreak…
On Jan. 26, 2020, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced that it had immediately committed $10 million…
On Jan. 22, 2020, Johns Hopkins engineering professor Dr. Lauren Gardner created the COVID dashboard used around the…
On Jan 31, 2020, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex M. Azar II declared a public health emergency…
On Jan. 9, 2020, the World Health Organization announced that a novel coronavirus had been identified as the…
On Dec. 31, 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic. To date,…
On Sept. 27, 2018, AbCellera, a biotech startup based in Vancouver, B.C., announced that it has raised a…
On Mar. 3, 2015, the first-ever World Birth Defects Day was observed with the support of 12 organizations….
On Aug, 20, 2013, Eastman Kodak announced that it had received court approval for a plan to emerge…
On Apr. 13, 2003, the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium announced the completion of the Human Genome Project…
In 2013, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) activated its Emergency Operations Center to investigate…
In 2012, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), a viral respiratory illness, was first reported in Saudi Arabia in…
On Dec. 4, 2007, representatives of 111 countries and 29 international organizations met in New Delhi India for…
On Jun. 7, 2007, years before the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the globe, a group of about 100…
On Apr. 14, 2003, researchers at Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Science Centre in Vancouver announced they had sequenced…
On Mar. 18, 2003, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was placed on U.S. quarantine list. Persons under quarantine…
On Mar. 6, 2003, the Singapore Ministry of Health (MOH) and the World Health Organization (WHO), announced they…
In April 1999, a pandemic planning framework was published by the World Health Organization (WHO) that emphasized the…
In 1970, the first cases of mpox were observed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, then spread to…
In 1958, mpox (MPVX) was first discovered when two nonfatal outbreaks of a pox-like disease were reported in…
On Apr. 7, 1948, the World Health Organization (WHO) was founded and is today the United Nations agency…