On May 23, 2019, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized marketing of a diagnostic test to…
On Apr. 25, 2019, researchers at the University of Georgia announced they had successfully discovered a single-dose vaccine…
On Apr. 9, 2019, Chembio Diagnostics announced the approval of its DPP Zika/Dengue/Chikungunya System by Agencia Nacional de…
On Dec. 26, 2018, Sanofi announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved VAXELIS (Diphtheria and…
On Oct. 5, 2018, the FDA announced it had approved a supplemental application for Gardasil 9 (Human Papillomavirus…
On Sept. 27, 2018, CEPI (the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations) announced a collaboration with The Jenner Institute…
On Sept. 11, 2018, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had announced that it had received 510k…
On Jan. 12, 2018, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published updated Immunization Practices Advisory…
On Jul 6, 2017, a group led by virologist David Evans of the University of Alberta in Edmonton,…
On Oct, 26, 2016, a team of researchers at the University of Arizona and University of Cambridge in…
On Sept. 13, 2016, Arbutus Biopharma announced that Dr. Michael J. Sofia, Arbutus’ Chief Scientific Officer, had been…
In 2015, the state of Alaska Department of Health announced they had identified Alaskapox virus in a patient…
On Dec. 11, 2014, Merck announced that the FDA had approved GARDASILﾮ9 (Human Papillomavirus 9-valent Vaccine, Recombinant), Merckﾒs…
On Dec. 26, 2013, a 2-year-old boy in the remote Guinean village of Meliandou fell ill with a…
On Dec. 16, 2013, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was informed by Merck that the…
In 2013, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) activated its Emergency Operations Center to investigate…
In 2012, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), a viral respiratory illness, was first reported in Saudi Arabia in…
In 2012, vaccines containing cell-cultured virus became available. Even though eggs continued to be the primary means of…
On Oct. 21, 2011, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it had approved revised prescribing information and…
On Mar. 23, 2011, J. Craig Venter Institute researchers announced Single Virus Genomics, enabling the isolation and complete…
On Oct. 16, 2009, GlaxoSmithKline announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved Cervarix [Human papillomavirus…
On Oct. 16, 2009, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved new indication for gardasil to prevent…
On Sept. 15, 2009, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved four Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent…
On Jun. 11, 2009, the Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General World Health Organization (WHO), declared the world was at…
On Apr. 15, 2009, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) identified the novel H1N1 influenza…
On Feb. 12, 2009, the Vaccine Court ruled that MMR vaccine, when administered with thimerosal-containing vaccines, does not…
On Oct. 6, 2008, Francoise Barre-Sinoussi was awarded a share of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or…
Jun. 25, 2008, researchers reported that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) responsible for most of the AIDS cases…
On Jun. 23, 2008, Sanofi Pasteur announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had licensed Pentacel, Diphtheria…
In 2008, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…