In 1986, The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (PDF – 312 KB), as amended, created the National Vaccine Injury…
In 1986, while teaching a graduate course at the University of Alberta, Dr. Tyrrell found clues that might…
In 1986, the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act was enacted by Congress. The Department of Health and Human…
On Apr. 12, 1985, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that between March 22,…
In 1985, Rotary International established its PolioPlus program, which held two fundraising events. Rotary has contributed over $500…
In 1985, virologist Flossie Wong-Staal became the first person to clone HIV, which led to the development of…
In 1985, the CDIPD was founded as an NIH-NIAID-supported Tropical Disease Research Unit (TDRU) at University of California,…
On Sept. 1, 1984, with the enactment of P.L. 98-369 by the U.S. Congress, coverage under Part B…
On Feb. 8, 1984, Elmer R. Pfefferkorn published his discovery that treatment of human fibroblasts with human recombinant…
In 1984, the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), the U.N. Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) bowed…
On Jun. 30, 1983, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) licensed two enhanced pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccines (Pneumovax…
in May 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed into law a bill that established the Foundation for the Advancement…
On Jul. 27, 1982, a meeting in Washington, DC, attended by federal officials, university researchers, community activists, and…
In 1982, the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, administered by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), was…
In 1982, the first hepatitis B viral vaccines, developed by Merck and also by the Pasteur Institute, were…
In 1982, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported an all-time low of measles cases,…
In 1982, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched a national surveillance for tick-borne Lyme…
On Nov. 23, 1981, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration licensed Quadrivalent groups A, C, Y, and W-135…
On Jul. 1, 1981, as a result of the enactment of Public Law 96-611 passed by the U.S….
In 1981, Merck began commercialize ivermectin as a broad-spectrum veterinary anti-parasitic drug that was originally developed to treat…
In 1981, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a plasma-derived hepatitis B vaccine for human use….
In 1981, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established the International Health Program Office, now…
On May 8, 1980, members of the World Heath Organization (WHO) in Geneva announced that “smallpox had been…
In 1980, McGill University researcher Dr. Kelvin Kenneth Ogilvie developed Ganciclovir to treat or prevent cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections….
On Jul. 27, 1979, the last cases of wild type 1 poliovirus occurred in the U.S. among unvaccinated…
In 1979, the last wild case of polio was recorded in the U.S. However, in 1993, the virus…
In 1979, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) licensed the RA 27/3 (human diploid fibroblast) strain of…
On Jan. 3, 1978, the Yellow fever vaccine (YF-Vax by Connaught) was licensed in the U.S. The Yellow…
In 1978, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) held its first international conference on Legionnaires’…
In 1978, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) completed construction of a new hot lab…