On Dec. 16, 2024, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has…
On Dec. 14, 2020, the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced that the New Orleans and Bedford,…
On Nov. 19, 2020, Cue Health announced that, as of November 9, the U.S. Department of Health and…
On Apr. 6, 2020, IGEA Pharma announced that it was starting to supply of a COVID-19 antibody test…
On Aug. 29, 2005, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) responded to the crises presented…
In 1986, The Biomedical Research Foundation (BRF) was founded. The BRF is an independent, nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organization founded…
In 1970, the Southern Corn Leaf Blight (SCLB) sweeps across the South, destroying 15% of the U.S. corn…
In 1942, “Louisiana pneumonitis,” a human disease possibly related to psittacosis, was discovered and studied in great detail…
In 1921, Riceland Foods was founded by a group of Arkansas rice farmers that created a farmers cooperative…
By April 1919, following upticks in influenza over winter, the final tally for New Orleans stood at 54,089…
By Nov. 18, 1918, with New Orleans’s business and schools once again back to their normal operations, local…
On Oct. 12, 1918, New Orleans transit officials restricted passenger counts on streetcars to address social distancing in…
On Oct. 9, 1918, New Orleans schools, churches, and other places of gathering were ordered closed.
On Oct. 7, 1918, influenza was named a mandatory reportable disease by New Orleans health officials, after reaching…
On Sept. 29, 1918, New Orleans reported its first influenza-related death.
On Sept. 16, 1918, the influenza epidemic arrived in New Orleans, Louisiana when an oil tanker with an…
In 1839, the University of Missouri was founded after the Missouri legislature passed the Geyer Act, legislation that…
In 1802, a U.S. marine hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana was authorized by Congress while the port was…