On Dec. 13, 2002, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it had licensed a combined diphtheria…
On Dec. 13, 2002, President Bush announced a major smallpox vaccination program to protect the nation against the…
On Sept. 10, 2002, the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act (P.L. 107-188) was passed…
On Jun. 21, 2002, all 53 Member States in the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region were certified…
On Jun. 12, 2002, President George W. Bush signed the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response…
On May 14, 2002, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved for use an additional combined diphtheria and…
On Feb. 25, 2002, GlaxoSmithKline announced that the company would no longer manufacture or distribute its Lyme disease…
In 2002, the Rotary International launched a Polio Eradication Fundraising Campaign with a fundraising target of $80 million…
On Dec. 12, 2001, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed an outbreak of Ebola in Gabon. The WHO…
On Nov. 5, 2001, following the events of September 11, the Institute of Medicine again called for creation…
On Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) learned of a domestic terrorism…
On Jun. 14, 2001, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) dedicated the Louis Stokes Laboratories (Building 50), a…
On May 29, 2001, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced today a global health grant of $70…
On May 11, 2001, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) licensed a combined hepatitis A and B vaccine…
In 2001, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) responded to the World Trade Center and…
On Dec. 29, 2000, the Regional Commission for the Certification of Poliomyelitis Eradication certified that the Western Pacific…
On Oct. 29, 2000, the Regional Commission for the Certification of Poliomyelitis Eradication certified that the Western Pacific…
In 2000, the use of Oral polio vaccine (OPV) was discontinued in the U.S. to eliminate the risk…
In 2000, measles was declared no longer endemic in the U.S. following eradication campaigns that began in 1967….
In 2000, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation began as the William H. Gates Foundation established in 1994,…
On Dec. 13, 1999, the University of Washington (UW) announced that Dr. Leroy Hood, chair of the Department…
On Dec. 9, 1999, the diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis vaccine (Tripedia by Connaught) was licensed….
On Nov. 23, 1999, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged a gift of $750 million over five…
On Oct. 15, 1999, Wyeth-Lederle Vaccines announced that it was withdrawing the Rotashield vaccine from the market and…
On Jun. 17, 1999, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (ACIP)…
On Jun. 9, 1999, the Dale and Betty Bumpers Vaccine Research Center (VRC) was established at the National…
On Mar. 17, 1999, the Hybrid Capture II human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA test was approved by the U.S….
On Feb. 7, 1999, National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day was founded by five national organizations funded by the…
On Jan. 15. 1999, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices…
In 1999, a diagnostic test allowed quick identification of Bovine Spongicorm Encephalopathy (BSE, also known as ‘mad cow’…