Typhoid immunization was required of all U.S service members
On Sept. 30, 1911, typhoid immunization became required of all U.S. service members. The U.S. Army became the…
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, Dr. Karl Landsteiner at the University Department of Pathological Anatomy in Vienna discovered that the cause…
In 1908, Drs. John F. Anderson, Leslie L. Lumsen and Wade H. Frost expanded scope of earlier typhoid…
In 1908, Arthur Marston Stimson developed a better method for rabies vaccine preparation so it could be sent…
On Dec. 6, 1904, the U.S. Supreme Court argued the case requiring a compulsory vaccination law. The Court…
On Jul. 1, 1902, the Biologics Control Act was enacted regulating the production of vaccines and antitoxins. It…
In 1902, the U.S. Biologics Control Act was passed to ensure purity and safety of serums, vaccines, and…
In 1901, diphtheria patients were routinely treated with antitoxin derived from the blood serum of horses. After 13…
In March 1900, Chick Gin, the Chinese proprietor of a lumberyard, died of bubonic plague in a flophouse…
On Jul. 16, 1898, 400 members of the Fifteenth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry were hospitalized with typhoid after camping…
On Jan. 10, 1897, Russian physician Waldemar M. W. Haffkine, who trained with Louis Pasteur in Paris, tested…
In 1897, Cutter Laboratories was a pharmaceutical company located in Berkeley, California that was founded by Edward Ahern…
In 1897, a plague vaccine was introduced, following the preparation of anti-plague horse serum at the Pasteur Institute…
In 1896, Almroth Edward Wright, Richard Pfeiffer and Wilhelm Kolle developed the first typhoid vaccine. It was a…
On Nov. 27, 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will at the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris. He specified…
In 1895, the H. K. Mulford Company, founded in Philadelphia, became the first commercial producer of diphtheria antitoxin…
On Jul. 6, 1885, Louis Pasteur’s anti-rabies vaccine was successfully tested on nine-year old Joseph Meister who had…
Between 1884-1895, Milton J. Rosenau, Leslie L. Lumsen, Joseph H. Kastle and other Hygienic Laboratory workers conducted an…
In 1884, the first live attenuated viral vaccine (rabies) was developed by Louis Pasteur, using dessicated brain tissue…
In 1879, Louis Pasteur created the first live attenuated bacterial vaccine (chicken cholera). He happened upon the method…
In 1878, The first description of avian influenza (bird flu) dates to 1878 in northern Italy, when it…
In 1877, Louis Pasteur noted that some bacteria die when cultured with certain other bacteria, indicating that some…
On Sept. 20, 1848, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) was founded which marked the…
In 1840, the British government passed the Vaccination Act of 1840, an act that provided free vaccinations for…
In 1801, Benjamin Waterhouse, a professor at the Massachusetts Medical College of Harvard University, conducted the first small…
In 1800, Benjamin Waterhouse introduced into the U.S. the technique of smallpox vaccination discovered in England by Dr….
In 1798, English scientist and physician Edward Jenner coined the word virus to describe the matter that produces…
In 1798, Edward Jenner published his work on the development of a vaccination that would protect against smallpox….