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On Oct. 30, 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Framework for Conditional Sailing…
On Sept. 30, 2020, BD (Becton, Dickinson) announced its rapid, point-of-care, SARS-CoV-2 antigen test for use on the…
On Sept. 14, 2020, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin and the Institut…
On Sept. 2, 2020, MicroGEM announced it had been awarded up to $40.9 million by the National Institutes…
On Jun. 1, 2020, the USDA announced it is transitioning its virulent Newcastle disease (vND) efforts in southern…
On Apr. 29, 2020, hospitalized patients with advanced COVID-19 and lung involvement who received remdesivir recovered faster than…
On Apr. 1, 2020, Philips announced that it can help general practitioners and healthcare institutions manage the increased…
On Mar. 13, 2020, the Federal Government, along with State and local governments, announced preventive and proactive measures…
On Oct. 28, 2016, UNMC/Nebraska Medicine announced they had been awarded $19.8 million by the U.S. Dept. of…
On Aug. 8, 2007, JAMA reported that research demonstrated a strong association between early, sustained, and layered application…
In 2004, The Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, part of the CDC’s National Center for Infectious Diseases,…
On Mar. 18, 2003, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was placed on U.S. quarantine list. Persons under quarantine…
On Aug. 26, 1994, the plague struck Surat, a city in the state of Gujarat in western India,…
In 1981, Merck began commercialize ivermectin as a broad-spectrum veterinary anti-parasitic drug that was originally developed to treat…
In 1976, patients began presenting at a rural hospital in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo (then referred to…
On Jun. 14, 1972, an end to the continued domestic usage of the pesticide DDT was decreed when…
On Apr. 10, 1972, the United States, the Soviet Union and 70 other nations signed an agreement that…
In 1971, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended discontinuation of routine immunization and vaccination…
In 1967, the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare transfered responsibility for quarantine to the National Communicable…
In 1967, the Foreign Quarantine Service was transferred to CDC from the U.S. Public Health Service. The CDC…
On Nov. 11, 1938, Mary Mallon, also known as Typhoid Mary and the first person in the U.S.,…
On Jan. 2, 1919, Denver slowly returned to normal after its flu epidemic, and schools reopened. School teachers…
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