On Aug. 30, 2024, the United Nations (UN) announced that polio vaccination will begin for some 640,000 children…
On Aug. 5, 2024, Novartis and Viatris were named a federal lawsuit in Maryland by the family of…
On Oct. 11, 2023, the European Commission, the European Investment Bank and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation…
On Aug. 7, 2023, the United Kingdom Health and Security Agency announced the Vaccine Development and Evaluation Centre…
On Aug. 1, 2023, more than 70 years after doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took Henrietta Lacks’ cervical…
On Jul. 28, 2023, the World Health Organization reported Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) – United Republic…
On Mar. 17, 2023, the Indonesia Ministry of Health notified WHO of the detection of a circulating vaccine-derived…
On Nov. 12, 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a Disease Outbreak News (DON) on the circulating…
On Oct. 18, 2022, global leaders confirmed US$ 2.6 billion in funding toward the Global Polio Eradication Initiativeï¾’s…
Milestones in Polio illustrates the step-by-step advancements from its clinical description and discovery to widespread infection and, finally…
On Jul. 21, 2022, The New York State Department of Health and the Rockland County Department of Health…
On Mar. 18, 2022, the WHO announced that Malawi launched the first round of vaccination campaigns against wild…
On Oct. 13, 2021, the World Health Organization honoured the late Henrietta Lacks with a WHO Director-General’s award,…
On Jun. 1, 2021, Sanofi announced that Vaxelis (Diphtheria and Tetanus Toxoids and Acellular Pertussis, Inactivated Poliovirus, Haemophilus…
On Jun. 15, 2020, Batavia Biosciences and Valneva announced a collaboration agreement to accelerate market-access of a low-cost…
On Jun. 4, 2020, world leaders pledged an additional US$ 8.8 billion for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, far…
On May 22, 2020, COVID 19 is disrupting life-saving immunization services around the world, putting millions of children…
On Apr. 16, 2019, Sinovac Biotech announced that the positive results from the Company’s Phase III clinical study…
On Dec. 26, 2018, Sanofi announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved VAXELIS (Diphtheria and…
On Sept. 27, 2016, the Region of the Americas was the first in the world to have eliminated…
On Aug. 14, 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) published “Recommendations on Vaccine Hesitancy” in a special issue…
On May 5, 2014, the WHO Director-General declared the international spread of wild poliovirus in 2014 a Public…
On Mar. 27, 2014, the WHO South-East Asia Region, home to a quarter of the worldï¾’s population, was…
On Jun. 21, 2012, the European Region of the world was certified as polio-free.
On Dec. 2, 2011, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Thomas R. Frieden, MD,…
On Jun. 24, 2008, the FDA licensed a combined diphtheria and tetanus toxoid and acellular pertussis (DTaP) and…
On Jun. 23, 2008, Sanofi Pasteur announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had licensed Pentacel, Diphtheria and…
On Apr. 12, 2005 marked the 50th anniversary of the Salk vaccine. Efforts to eradicate polio worldwide remain…
On Dec. 13, 2002, the vaccine that combined the diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis, inactivated polio, and hepatitis B…
In 2002, all 53 Member States in the WHO European Region were certified polio free by the Regional…