researchers solve 1,500-year-old mystery: The bacterium behind the first pandemic
On Aug. 27, 2025, for the first time an interdisciplinary team at the University of South Florida (USF)…
CDC Issues Report on Human Plague Transmitted from Infected Cat in Oregon
On Jul. 17, 2025, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report about an…
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Huge biosecurity centre investment to boost UK pandemic protection
On Jul. 17, 2025, a new world-leading biosecurity centre in Essex has been announced that will protect the…
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Global childhood vaccination coverage holds steady, yet over 14 million infants remain unvaccinated
On Jul. 15, 2025, in 2024, 89% of infants globally – about 115 million – received at least…
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Coconino County, Arozona Reports Plague death
On Jul. 11, 2025, Coconino County Health and Human Services (CCHHS) officials received confirmatory test results, and have…
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NIH suspends dozens of pathogen studies over ‘gain-of-function’ concerns
On Jul. 11, 2025, in response to White House concerns about allegedly risky research on viruses, bacteria, and…
Large-scale DNA study maps 37,000 years of disease history
On Jul. 9, 2025, a research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and…
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Kennedy replaces fired U.S. CDC panel members, includes anti-vaccine proponents
On Jun. 12, 2025, U.S. Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. named eight members to serve on a key…
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WHO and Medicines Patent Pool announce sublicensing agreement for rapid diagnostic test technology
On May 9, 2025, The World Health Organization (WHO) and Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) announced a sublicensing agreement…
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WHO brings countries together to test collective pandemic response
On Apr. 4, 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that over the past two days, it convened…
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HHS starts layoffs of thousands of workers across its agencies
On Apr. 1, 2025, layoff notices began arriving for thousands of employees of the sprawling U.S. Department of…
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UK Report highlights Two Dozen pathogens of greatest risk to public health
On Mar. 25. 2025, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) published its view on the pathogen families that…
evolution of plague traced to Bronze Age Sheep with Yersinia pestis genome
On Feb. 7, 2025, an international team of researchers reported Yersinia pestis genome had been recovered from a…
CEPI and WHO urge broader research strategy for countries to prepare for the next pandemic
On Aug. 1, 2024, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the World Health Organization (WHO) called…
Public Health Officials Confirmed First Human Plague Case in Pueblo County, Colorado
On Jul. 9, 2024, officials at the Pueblo Department of Public Health and Environment (PDPHE), in collaboration with…
Deschutes County confirmed case of human plague in local resident
On Feb. 8, 2024, Deschutes County Health Services in Bend, Oregon confirmed a case of human plague in…
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The United Kingdom announced the Vaccine Development and Evaluation Centre
On Aug. 7, 2023, the United Kingdom Health and Security Agency announced the Vaccine Development and Evaluation Centre…
DNA evidence of plague found in Central Asia
On Oct. 15, 2022, scientists reported that DNA evidence showed that the plague infection was endemic in the…
Origins of the Black Death identified
On Jun, 15, 2022, a multidisciplinary team of scientists, announced they had obtained and studied ancient Y. pestis…
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NIAID Pandemic Preparedness Plan targeted ‘prototype’ and priority pathogens
On Feb. 2, 2022, NIAID scientists announced the new Pandemic Preparedness Plan aimed to support critical basic and…
Dynavax and U.S. Department of Defense announced collaboration to develop adjuvanted plague vaccine
On Oct. 4, 2021, Dynavax Technologies and the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) announced Dynavax had executed an…
Phase I trial began of new vaccine against the Plague
On Jul. 26, 2021, researchers at the University of Oxford launched a Phase 1 trial to test a…
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DARPA awarded Moderna $56 Million to enable small-scale, rapid mobile manufacturing of vaccines and therapeutics
On Oct. 8, 2020, Moderna announced an agreement for a commitment of up to $56 million from the…
HHS funded development of needle-free vaccine administration technology
On Oct. 6, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced funding of a patch…
NIH study showed genomic variation causing common autoinflammatory disease may increase resilience to bubonic plague
On Jun. 29, 2020, National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers announced they had discovered that Mediterranean populations may…
WHO published “Recommendations on Vaccine Hesitancy” in special issue of the journalﾠ Vaccine
On Aug. 14, 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) published “Recommendations on Vaccine Hesitancy” in a special issue…
Researchers reconstructed genome of the Black Death
On Oct. 13, 2011, an international team, led by researchers at McMaster University and the University of Tubingen…
Global eradication of rinderpest (cattle plague) was declared
On Jun. 28, 2011, during the 37th United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization Conference, the 192 Member countries…
Sandia researchers unlocked secrets of plague with stunning new imaging techniques
On May 6, 2011, Sandia announced a novel super-resolution microscopy technique that is providing new answers to old…
The One Health approach was recommended for pandemic preparedness
On Dec. 4, 2007, representatives of 111 countries and 29 international organizations met in New Delhi India for…