On Nov. 21, 2024, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that by the week…
On Nov. 14, 2024, the March of Dimes released its 2024 Report Card, revealing the U.S. preterm birth…
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…
Milestones in Polio illustrates the slow but steady advancements from its clinical description and discovery to widespread infection…
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…
On Jul. 21, 2022, The New York State Department of Health confirmed that a case of paralytic poliomyelitis…
On Mar. 18, 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that Malawi had launched the first round of…
On Oct. 13, 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) honoured the late Henrietta Lacks with a WHO Director-General’s…
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 Apr. 29, 2015, the Pan American Health Organization ï¾ declared that the Americas region has become the first…
On May 5, 2014, the WHO Director-General declared the international spread of wild poliovirus in 2014 a Public…
On Mar. 27, 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) South-East Asia Region, home to a quarter of the…
On Apr. 25, 2013, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) announced a comprehensive six-year plan, the first plan…
On Jun. 21, 2012, the European Region of the world was certified as polio-free. Certification followed years of…
On Dec. 2, 2011, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Thomas R. Frieden, MD,…
On Jan. 21, 2009, the Rotary International, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the British and German…