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 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 Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (ACIP) recommended exclusive use of inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV)…
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…
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, Global Polio Eradication Initiative was launched as global burden of polio impacts 350,000 in 125 countries…
In 1986, the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act was enacted by Congress. The Department of Health and Human…
In 1985, Rotary International established its PolioPlus program, which held two fundraising events. Rotary has contributed over $500…
On Jul. 27, 1979, the last cases of wild type 1 poliovirus occurred in the U.S. among unvaccinated…
In 1979, the last wild case of polio was recorded in the U.S. However, In 1993, the virus…
On Oct. 30, 1977, Ali Maow Maalin, a hospital cook in Merca, Somalia, was diagnosed with smallpox by…
In 1977, Joseph A. Califano, Jr., Secretary of the Dept of Health, Education, and Welfare (later Health and…
In 1975, The World Health Assembly passed a resolution to create the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) to…
In 1974, the Expanded Programme on Immunization was created within World Health Organization (WHO)Â in response to poor…
On Jun. 25, 1963, the Trivalent oral polio vaccine was licensed. The vaccine development began in 1957 by…
In 1963, the U.S. Congress established the Immunization Grant Program; polio incidence plummeted to only 396 reported cases…
In 1963, the Federal Immunization Grant Program was established. The grants, authorized under section 317 of the Public…