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 ﾠdeclared that the Americas region has become the first…
On May 5, 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General declared the international spread of wild poliovirus a…
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…
On Jun. 24, 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) licensed a combined diphtheria and tetanus toxoid…
On Jun. 23, 2008, Sanofi Pasteur announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had licensed Pentacel, Diphtheria and…
On Nov. 26, 2007, the Rotary International announced a partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that…
On Jul. 20, 2007, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced in MMWR that revised…
On Apr. 12, 2005 marked the 50th anniversary of the announcement that the polio vaccine, developed by Jonas…
On Dec. 13, 2002, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it had licensed a combined diphtheria…
On Jun. 21, 2002, all 53 Member States in the WHO European Region were certified polio free by…
In 2002, the Rotary International launched a Polio Eradication Fundraising Campaign with a fundraising target of $80 million…
On Dec. 29, 2000, the Regional Commission for the Certification of Poliomyelitis Eradication certified that the Western Pacific…
On Oct. 29, 2000, the Regional Commission for the Certification of Poliomyelitis Eradication certified that the Western Pacific…
In 2000, the use of Oral polio vaccine (OPV) was discontinued in the U.S. to eliminate the risk…
On Jun. 17, 1999, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (ACIP)…
In April 1999, a pandemic planning framework was published by the World Health Organization (WHO) that emphasized the…
In 1997, the Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (ACIP) recommended adoption of a sequential series of two doses of…
In 1995, the Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (ACIP), American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Association of Family…
On Sept. 29, 1994, based on recommendations of the national certification committees and after review of surveillance and…
On Aug. 20, 1994, the entire Western Hemisphere was certified as “polio-free” by the International Commission for the…
In 1991, the last case of indigenous polio in the Western Hemisphere occurred in a 5-year-old boy, Luis…
In 1990, the Global Polio Laboratory Network (GPLN) was formally established by the World Health Organization (WHO), national…
On Mar. 11, 1988, the World Health Assembly (the ministers of health of all member states of the…
In 1988, the World Health Assembly adopted a resolution for the worldwide eradication of polio, marking the launch…
In 1986, the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act was enacted by Congress. The Department of Health and Human…