Margaret Pittman began work on the intracerebral challenge potency assay for pertussis vaccine
In 1943, Margaret Pittman began work on the intracerebral challenge potency assay for pertussis vaccine. The standardization effected…
In 1943, Margaret Pittman began work on the intracerebral challenge potency assay for pertussis vaccine. The standardization effected…
In 1942, Dr. Jonas Salk arrived at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Techniques earned there…
In 1941, Connaught Laboratories at the University of Toronto developed the first combined vaccines for diphtheria, pertussis, and…
On Sept. 6, 1940, Karl Habel produced an improved, killed rabies vaccine that eliminated foreign brain tissue that…
On Dec. 23, 1938, Herald R. Cox published: Use of Yolk Sac of Developing Chick Embryo as Medium…
In 1938, Gordon E. Davis and Herald R. Cox identified a new rickettsial disease, which they called Nine…
In 1938, Thomas Francis, Jr., MD and Jonas Salk, MD served as lead researchers at the University of…
In 1938, Dr. Armand Frappier, at the Institut de Microbiologie et d’Hygiene de Montreal, conducted the first studies…
In 1937, the Rocky Mountain Laboratory became part of the National Institute of Health (NIH). During World War…
In 1936, Albert Sabin and Peter Olitsky at the Rockefeller Institute successfully grew poliovirus in a culture of…
In 1936, Max Theiler, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale (and later the Rockefeller Institute), and…
In 1935, Maurice Brodie, a research assistant at New York University, attempted to produce a formaldehyde-killed polio vaccine…
In 1934, Ida A. Bengtson began standardization of antitoxin for six species of Clostridium which cause gas gangrene….
In 1930, the Hygienic Laboratory changed its name to the National Institute (singular) of Health and authorized the…
In 1927, Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine was first used in newborns, having been developed by Albert Calmette and…
In 1924, Roscoe R. Spencer and Ralph R. Parker produced a vaccine against Rocky Mountain spotted fever, the…
In 1921, future President of the U.S. Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) became a victim of polio at the…
In 1921, Hollister-Stier Laboratories, located in Spokane, is the oldest name in allergy science. The company was founded…
In 1916, During World War I, work by Hygienic Laboratory investigators changed the way smallpox vaccinations were administered…
In 1916, Guillain-Barr syndrome (GBS), also known as Landry-Guillain-Barr-Strohl syndrome, was described. Its incidence in North America and…
In 1915, Pertussis vaccine, a suspension of inactivated Bordetella pertussis cells, was licensed. Inactivated vaccines were prepared with…
In 1914, the first typhoid vaccine was licensed in the U.S. in 1914. Typhoid immunization was required of…
In 1914, the tetanus toxoid was introduced following the development of an effective therapeutic serum against tetanus by…
In 1914, rabies vaccine was first licensed in the U.S. The H. K. Mulford Company, founded in Philadelphia…
In 1913, for the first time ever, a virus (vaccinia) was grown in cell culture, and then in…
In 1913, Japanese immunologist and bacteriologist Hideyo Noguchi discovered that Treponema pallidum (syphilitic spirochete) was the cause of…
On Sept. 30, 1911, typhoid immunization became required of all U.S. service members. The U.S. Army became the…
In 1910, the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine’s first building, Connaway Hall, was built to house…
On Jun. 26, 1908, a typhoid fever epidemic struck Mankato, Minnesota with 5,000-6,000 cases of diarrhea reported between…
In 1908, Drs. John F. Anderson, Leslie L. Lumsen and Wade H. Frost expanded scope of earlier typhoid…