On Jun. 7, 2007, years before the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the globe, a group of about 100…
On Apr. 14, 2003, researchers at Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Science Centre in Vancouver announced they had sequenced…
On Mar. 18, 2003, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was placed on U.S. quarantine list. Persons under quarantine…
On Mar. 6, 2003, the Singapore Ministry of Health (MOH) and the World Health Organization (WHO), announced they…
In April 1999, a pandemic planning framework was published by the World Health Organization (WHO) that emphasized the…
In 1970, the first human case of mpox was reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)…
In 1958, mpox (MPVX) was first discovered when two nonfatal outbreaks of a pox-like disease were reported in…
On Feb. 8, 1951, Henrietta Lacks, a tobacco farmer from Virginia died from cervical cancer, and a scientist…
On Apr. 7, 1948, the World Health Organization (WHO) was founded and is today the United Nations agency…