Varicella virus vaccine, live was licensed for the active immunization of persons 12 months of age and older
On Mar. 17, 1995, the varicella virus vaccine, live (Varivax by Merck) was licensed for the active immunization…
On Mar. 17, 1995, the varicella virus vaccine, live (Varivax by Merck) was licensed for the active immunization…
On Dec. 23, 1994, the FDA announced the approval of the first U.S. HIV test system using oral…
On Sept. 29, 1994, based on recommendations of the national certification committees and after review of surveillance and…
In 1994, human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8), a causative agent for Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS), was identified. HHV-8 is also…
In 1994, Washington University – St. Louis reseacher Lee Ratern, MD and colleagues announced they had developed an…
In May 1993, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) responded to a Hantavirus outbreak in…
On Jun. 1, 1992, the FDA recommended that all donated blood be screened for antibodies to human immunodeficiency…
In 1990, the Global Polio Laboratory Network (GPLN) was formally established by the World Health Organization (WHO), national…
On May 22, 1989, Dr. Steven A. Rosenberg and his team at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) performed…
In 1986, while teaching a graduate course at the University of Alberta, Dr. Tyrrell found clues that might…
In 1986, researchers at the Institute of Virology at Oxford University released a genetically engineered baculovirus in what…
On Mar. 2, 1985, the FDA announced the approval of the Abbott first antibody test kit to screen…
On Apr. 23, 1984, a National Cancer Institute (NCI) scientist, Dr. Robert C. Gallo, reported the isolation of…
In 1983, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established the National AIDS Hotline (NAH) to…
In 1981, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a plasma-derived hepatitis B vaccine for human use….
On May 8, 1980, the World Health Assembly certified the world free of naturally-occurring smallpox. Smallpox is an…
In 1980, National Cancer Institute (NCI) scientists isolated human T-cell lymphotrophic virus 1 (HTLV-1). This virus, which is…
In 1980, McGill University researcher Dr. Kelvin Kenneth Ogilvie developed Ganciclovir to treat or prevent cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections….
On Jul. 27, 1979, the last cases of wild type 1 poliovirus occurred in the U.S. among unvaccinated…
In 1979, the first human RNA virus (HTLV-I) was discovered by the National Cancer Institute’s Dr. Robert C….
On Jan. 3, 1978, the Yellow fever vaccine (YF-Vax by Connaught) was licensed in the U.S. The Yellow…
In 1978, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) completed construction of a new hot lab…
In 1977, Harvard Medical School researcher Stephen C. Harrison first determined the structure of an intact virus particle,…
On Oct. 13, 1976, the Ebola virus was first identified in Sudan and Zaire (now Democratic Republic of…
In 1976, interleukin-2 was discovered and purified which allowed researchers to grow T-cells and study their immunology, which…
In 1975, Caltech President David Baltimore, former Caltech faculty member and Salk Institute researcher Renato Delbucco, and Caltech…
In 1974, Stanford Medicine researcher William S. Robinson successfully isolated the genome of the hepatitis B virus, which is…
On Jul. 18, 1973, the measles and mumps virus vaccine, live (M-M-Vax by Merck) was licensed. Measles (rubeola)…
On Jun. 30, 1972, five U.S .cancer scientists met with Russian scientists in Moscow to exchange information on…
On Apr. 10, 1972, the United States., the Soviet Union and 70 other nations sign an agreement that…