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…
On Apr. 10, 1972, the United States, the Soviet Union and 70 other nations signed an agreement that…
On Nov. 25, 1969, President Richard Nixon issued his “Statement on Chemical and Biological Defense Policies and Programs”…
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…
On Jan. 27, 1896, the Boston Globe published a story on superstitious beliefs in rural Rhode Island that…
In 1894, the last major plague pandemic began in China and lasted over a decade spreading from Hong…
In 1894, Alexandre Yersin, a member of the French Colonial Health Service in Hong Kong isolated from buboes…
In 1894, Kitasato Shibasaburo isolated the causative bacillus from buboes, later named Yersinia pestis, while he researched the…
On Apr. 29, 1878, an Act of the U.S. Congress to Prevent the Introduction of Contagious or Infectious…
In 1878, The first description of avian influenza (bird flu) dates to 1878 in northern Italy, when it…
On Jul. 11, 1868, Texas cattle disease first appeared at Jersey City’s Communipaw slaughterhouse in the New York…
In 1850, the first international sanitary conference is held in Paris, France with a goal of making quarantines…
On May 25, 1720, the Great Plague of Marseille began with the arrival of the Grand St Antoine…
In 1712, a plague epidemic around the Baltic Sea led England to pass the Quarantine Act that required…
In 1697, a Massachusetts statute stipulated that all individuals suffering from plague, smallpox, and other infectious diseases must…
In 1666, the city of Frankfurt, Germany issued a decree prohibiting people living in plague-infected houses from visiting…
In 1665 a tailor from Eyam ordered a box of materials relating to his trade from London, that…