China bans pork imports from Barcelona after Spain’s swine fever outbreak
On Nov. 28, 2025, China has banned pork imports from Barcelona province after Spain detected its first case…
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Biotechnology | Diagnostics | Environmental | Forestry | Genomics | Marine Science | Non-Profit Research
Once thought a fantasy, effort to sequence DNA of millions of species gains momentum
On Nov. 4, 2025, six years ago this month, scientists launched a massively ambitious effort to sequence the…
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Pfizer and BioNTech Receive Positive CHMP Opinion for LP.8.1-adapted COVID-19 Vaccine in the European Union
On Jul. 25, 2025, Pfizer and BioNTech announced that the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products…
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Femasys Announces Historic Milestone with European Approval of FemBloc®, the First Non-Surgical Permanent Birth Control
On Jun. 25, 2025, Femasys announces Conformité Européene (CE) mark certification under European Union Medical Device Regulation of…
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Europe pledges half a billion euros to lure scientists as Trump battles universities
On May 5, 2025, The European Union (EU) and France announced half a billion euros worth of incentives…
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Europe steps up recruitment of U.S. scientists
On April 3, France’s Université Paris-Saclay said it is one of dozens of European institutions ramping up efforts…
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75% of U.S. scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving
On Mar. 27, 2025, a Nature survey of more than 1,200 scientists, three-quarters of the total respondents are…
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Biotechnology | Diagnostics | Infectious Disease | Measles | Vaccine | WHO
European Region reported highest number of measles cases in more than 25 years
On Mar. 13, 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced an…
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HPAI clade 2.3.4.4b A(H5N5) virus spillover into North America mammals increasing
On Jul. 23, 2024, a study published in Cell Reports revealed that seabirds likely facilitated the spread of…
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Novavax’s updated COVID-19 vaccine approved in the EU
On Oct. 31, 2023, Novavax announced that the European Commission had granted approval for Nuvaxovid XBB.1.5 dispersion for…
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France kicked off world first bird flu vaccination despite trade backlash
On Oct. 2, 2023, France began vaccinating ducks against bird flu to try and stem the virus that…
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Agriculture | Diagnostics | Infectious Disease | Influenza | USDA | Vaccine
USDA Protected U.S. Poultry with Restrictions on Poultry Products from France and the European Union
On Sept. 29, 2023, The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced it…
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Novavax’s Nuvaxovid received positive CHMP opinion for full marketing authorization for prevention of COVID in the EU
On May 26, 2023, Novavax announced that Nuvaxovid (NVX-CoV2373) had been recommended for full Marketing Authorization (MA) for…
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EMA Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use rcommended use of Moderna’s BA.1 bivalent COVID-19 booster in children in the EU
On Dec. 16, 2022, Moderna announced that the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use…
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Hologic announced contract with BARDA to support IVD approval of COVID assays
On Nov. 2, 2022, Hologic announced that it had been awarded a $19 million contract from the Biomedical…
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Novavax Nuvaxovid COVID-19 vaccine recommended by CHMP for expanded conditional Marketing Authorization in EU as booster for adults
On Sept. 1, 2022, Novavax announced that Nuvaxovid (NVX-CoV2373) COVID-19 vaccine had been recommended for expanded conditional marketing…
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Novavax announced shipments of COVID-19 vaccine to European Union member states
On Feb. 23, 2022, Novavax announced the first doses of Nuvaxovid COVID-19 Vaccine (recombinant, adjuvanted) had begun shipping…
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EU to donate more than 70 million doses of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to COVAX to fight COVID-19 pandemic in low income countries
On Nov. 16, 2021, an agreement was announced that enabled the European Union and European Economic Area countries…
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CHMP adopted positive opinion recommending authorization for use of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in adolescents in EU
On Jul. 23, 2021, Moderna announced that the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human…
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EMA approved new storage option for Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, easing distribution and storage of doses
On Mar. 26, 2021, Pfizer and BioNTech announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) approved storage of COMIRNATY…
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Roche’s Xofluza approved by the EC for treatment of influenza, first new influenza antiviral in almost 20 years
On Jan. 11, 2021, Roche announced that the European Commission (EC) had approved Xofluza (baloxavir marboxil) for the…
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First adjuvanted quadrivalent influenza vaccine received EU approval
On Jul. 8, 2020, the European Commission announced regulatory approval for the first adjuvanted quadrivalent influenza vaccine to…
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Quidel received CE Mark for the Lyra SARS-CoV-2 assay, authorizing Quidel to market and sell the assay in Europe
On Mar. 26, 2020, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted expanded emergency use authorisation (EUA) for…
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Thermo Fisher Scientific received CE Mark for its Diagnostic test to Detect COVID-19
On Mar. 26, 2020, Thermo Fisher Scientific announced it had received the CE mark in the European Union…
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Diagnostics | Infectious Disease | Polio | Vaccine | WHO
The European Region was certified polio-free
On Jun. 21, 2002, all 53 Member States in the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region were certified…
