On Mar. 17, 2025, The Mississippi Board of Animal Health (MBAH) has been notified by the U.S.Department of…
On Mar. 12, 2025, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) confirmed the presence of highly pathogenic…
On Nov. 14, 2024, an analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study Collaborator Network warned of an…
On Jun. 17, 2023, the Mississippi man known as “Case 1,” the first person to be diagnosed with…
On Nov. 5, 2022, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) confirmed the…
On Jul. 27, 2022, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that it had identified for…
On Sept. 1, 2020, Arcadia Biosciences announced it had completed the purchase of Oregon-based Industrial Seed Innovations (ISI)…
On May 7, 2020, the Defense Health Agency announced that the Air Force Genetics Center of Excellence at…
On Apr. 2, 2020, a University of Chicago team announced that it had mapped confirmed COVID-19 infections per…
On Aug. 29, 2005, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) responded to the crises presented…
In 1970, the Southern Corn Leaf Blight (SCLB) sweeps across the South, destroying 15% of the U.S. corn…
On Jan. 16, 1964, a team of doctors led by Dr. James D. Hardy, professor of surgery and…
In 1933, the New World Screwworm (NWS) was first documented as a significant problem in the Southeast following…
In 1921, Riceland Foods was founded by a group of Arkansas rice farmers that created a farmers cooperative…
In 1898, the University of Iowa opened a new 65-bed hospital, built on the same site of the…
In 1878, the yellow fever epidemic raged along the Mississippi River Valley.
In 1872, the University of Missouri School of Medicine was founded, the first publicly supported medical school west…
In 1839, the University of Missouri was founded after the Missouri legislature passed the Geyer Act, legislation that…