On Dec. 26, 2013, a 2-year-old boy in the remote Guinean village of Meliandou fell ill with a…
On Nov. 15, 2013, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted to extend existing recommendations for use…
On Sept. 18, 2013, it was reported a parasite that infects up to one-third of people around the…
On Jul. 2, 2013, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) partnered with Association of Public…
On Jun. 20, 2013, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted 13 to 0, in favor of…
On Jun. 10, 2013, Sanofi Pasteur announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved the supplemental…
On Apr. 25, 2013, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) announced a comprehensive six-year plan, the first plan…
On Mar. 26, 2013, GlaxoSmithKline and the Texas A&M University System announced that the U.S. Department of Health…
On Nov. 15, 2012, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) responded to the fungal meningitis…
On Oct. 24, 2012, the Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (ACIP) voted 14-0 with one abstention to recommend that…
On Jun. 26, 2012, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) responded to a multi-state outbreak…
On Jun. 21, 2012, the European Region of the world was certified as polio-free. Certification followed years of…
On Jun. 13, 2012, in a project led by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig,…
On Jun. 13, 2012, the Human Microbiome Project announced the completion of a seminal study of microbial diversity….
On Jun. 5, 2012, an international team of scientists decoded genome of Chagas disease. Previously, scientists had only…
On Jun. 5, 2012, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General…
On Apr. 24, 2012, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) confirmed…
On Apr. 3, 2012, the Washington State Secretary of Health declared a pertussis epidemic. By June 16, the…
In 2012, vaccines containing cell-cultured virus became available. Even though eggs continued to be the primary means of…
On Dec. 2, 2011, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Thomas R. Frieden, MD,…
On Oct. 25, 2011, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)…
On Oct. 13, 2011, an international team, led by researchers at McMaster University and the University of Tubingen…
On Sept. 30, 2011, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) responded to a multi-state outbreak…
On Jun. 11, 2011, scientists in China reported the isolation of 2 novel reassortant highly pathogenic avian influenza…
On Jun. 11, 2011, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) marked the 30th year since…
On May 20, 2011, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) hailed vaccinations as one of…
On May 6, 2011, Sandia announced a novel super-resolution microscopy technique that is providing new answers to old…
On Apr. 22, 2011, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the use of Menactra in children…
On Mar. 23, 2011, J. Craig Venter Institute researchers announced Single Virus Genomics, enabling the isolation and complete…
On Dec. 20, 2011, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced approval of the first and only…