On Aug. 23, 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported an outbreak of Oropouche virus (OROV) in the…
On Nov. 18, 2022, the World Organisation for Animal Health announced that Peru had reported its first outbreak…
On Sept. 24, 2021, Moderna announced a supply agreement with the government of Peru for 20 million doses…
On Mar. 22, 2021, Oxford University announced that a Phase III study of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine conducted…
On Dec. 30, 2020, Mateon Therapeutics announced that it had enrolled and treated its first sentinel Part 1…
On Nov. 4, 2020, Mateon Therapeutics announced the receipt of approval from Instituto Nacional de Salud (INS), the…
On Nov. 2, 2020, CureVac announced positive interim data from its ongoing Phase 1 dose-escalation study evaluating the…
On Sept. 29, 2020, CureVac announced that the first participant has been dosed in a Phase 2a clinical…
On Apr. 16, 2020, OpGen announced that a study on the feasibility and potential of antibiotic susceptibility testing…
In 2006, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) launched the TAILORx trial to determine whether gene expression patterns in…
On Dec. 1, 1993, scientists reported the recovery of DNA unique to Mycobacterium tuberculosis from a lung lesion…
In 1991, the last case of indigenous polio in the Western Hemisphere occurred in a 5-year-old boy, Luis…
In 1621, potatoes from Peru were planted in Germany, another example of foreign microbes finding new homes. Botanist…
Around 8000 BCE, Potatoes, the world’s most widely grown tuber crop, were first cultivated for food in area…