On Aug. 29, 2024, Emergent BioSolutions announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved the supplemental Biologics…
On Jul. 2, 2024, Emergent BioSolutions announced it had received more than $250 millionin contract modifications from the…
On Mar. 26, 2024, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released a report that said action…
On Feb. 14, 2023, scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases announced they had developed…
On Aug. 29, 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced it had provided approximately $11…
On Aug. 9, 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization for the JYNNEOS…
On Jul. 6, 2022, LabCorp announced that it had begun testing for monkeypox using the U.S. Centers for…
On Dec. 1, 2021, SIGA Technologies announced that Health Canada had approved oral TPOXX (tecovirimat) as an extraordinary…
On Jun. 30, 2021, SIGA Technologies announced that it had provided TPOXX (tecovirimat) to Liverpool University Hospitals NHS…
On Jun. 4, 2021, Chimerix announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had granted TEMBEXAï¾® (brincidofovir)…
On Dec. 7, 2020, Chimerix announced that the FDA has accepted the filing of a New Drug Application…
On Oct. 8, 2020, SIGA Technologies announced that the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has issued an…
On Aug. 25, 2020, the independent Africa Regional Certification Commission (ARCC) for Polio Eradication officially declared that the…
On Jun. 25, 2020, SIGA Technologies announced the deliveries of oral TPOXX (tecovirimat) to the U.S. Department of…
On Jun. 15, 2020, SIGA Technologies announced the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) increased research and development funding…
On Apr. 28, 2020, Chimerix announced it had received clearance from the FDA for a rolling submission of…
On Feb. 26, 2020, Tonix Pharmaceuticals announced a strategic collaboration with Southern Research to support the development of…
On Sept. 24, 2019, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced approval of Jynneos Smallpox and Monkeypox Vaccine,…
On Jul 6, 2017, a group led by virologist David Evans of the University of Alberta in Edmonton,…
On Apr. 29, 2015, the Pan American Health Organization ï¾ declared that the Americas region has become the first…
On Jun. 28, 2011, during the 37th United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization Conference, the 192 Member countries…
On Jul. 10, 2010, Bavarian Nordic announced that it had delivered 1 million doses of its smallpox vaccine…
On Feb. 29, 2008, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced it had begun distribution…
On Jan. 8, 2005, researchers from Baylor University Medical Center reported that although the origin of smallpox is…
On Aug. 17, 2003, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) announced the final results of a smallpox vaccine…
On Dec. 13, 2002, President Bush announced a major smallpox vaccination program to protect the nation against the…
On May 8, 1980, members of the World Heath Organization (WHO) in Geneva announced that “smallpox had been…
On May 8, 1980, the World Health Assembly certified the world free of naturally-occurring smallpox. Smallpox is an…
In 1978, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) completed construction of a new hot lab…
On Oct. 30, 1977, Ali Maow Maalin, a hospital cook in Merca, Somalia, was diagnosed with smallpox by…