On Aug. 1, 2024, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the World Health Organization (WHO) called…
On Jul. 9, 2024, officials at the Pueblo Department of Public Health and Environment (PDPHE), in collaboration with…
On Feb. 8, 2024, Deschutes County Health Services confirmed a case of human plague in a local resident….
On Aug. 7, 2023, the United Kingdom Health and Security Agency announced the Vaccine Development and Evaluation Centre…
On Oct. 15, 2022, scientists reported that DNA evidence showed that the plague infection was endemic in the…
On Jun, 15, 2022, a multidisciplinary team of scientists, announced they had obtained and studied ancient Y. pestis…
On Feb. 2, 2022, NIAID scientists announced the new Pandemic Preparedness Plan aimed to support critical basic and…
On Oct. 4, 2021, Dynavax Technologies and the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) announced Dynavax had executed an…
On Jul. 26, 2021, researchers at the University of Oxford launched a Phase 1 trial to test a…
On Jun. 29, 2020, National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers announced they had discovered that Mediterranean populations may…
On Aug. 14, 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) published “Recommendations on Vaccine Hesitancy” in a special issue…
On Oct. 13, 2011, an international team, led by researchers at McMaster University and the University of Tubingen…
On Jun. 28, 2011, during the 37th United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization Conference, the 192 Member countries…
On May 6, 2011, Sandia announced a novel super-resolution microscopy technique that is providing new answers to old…
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 Jun. 12, 2002, President George W. Bush signed the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response…
In April 1999, a pandemic planning framework was published by the World Health Organization (WHO) that emphasized the…
On Aug. 26, 1994, the plague struck Surat, a city in the state of Gujarat in western India,…
In 1978, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) completed construction of a new hot lab…
In September 1665, at the height of the great plague in London, more than 7,100 died in one…
In 1931, Rolla E. Dyer, Lucius F. Badger, and Adolph S. Rumreich demonstrated that Rocky Mountain spotted fever…
In 1923, more than 50,000 foreign plants had been introduced into the United States since 1862 by the…
In 1921, the founding of the Rocky Mountain Laboratory (RML) can be traced back to westward migration when…
On Aug. 31, 1909, George W. McCoy published a preliminary report in “The Journal of Medical Research” that…
On Oct. 1, 1907, bubonic plague broke out in Seattle when three (possibly seven) people died. Rats were…
In March 1900, Chick Gin, the Chinese proprietor of a lumberyard, died of bubonic plague in a flophouse…
In 1900, the city of San Francisco’s quarantine of Chinatown ruled discriminatory, but city health officials conducted house-to-house…
On Jan. 10, 1897, Russian physician Waldemar M. W. Haffkine, who trained with Louis Pasteur in Paris, tested…
In 1897, a plague vaccine was introduced, following the preparation of anti-plague horse serum at the Pasteur Institute…