Deadly Disease Timeline 2001 - Present |
| Year | disease (findings) / outbreaks | scientific reasearch/cure | Medicines | Articles | ||||||
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| 2001 | First outbreak of BSE occurs in Japan | FDA licenses the first nucleic acid test (NAT) systems intended for screening of blood and plasma donors. (AIDS) | 
Job Aids For Everyone: A Step-by-step Guide To Creating Job And Task Aids |
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| 2002 | First confirmed case of vCJD appears in the US, in a 22-year-old
British woman living in Florida SARS-The first case of an atypical pneumonia is reported in the Guangdong province in southern China. |
Sars |
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| 2003 | US Department of Agriculture (USDA) bans sick and injured
(“downer”) cattle from human food supply, as well as specified
risk material and tissues, such as brain and spinal cord, from cattle over
30 months old and mechanically separated meat. A new system of animal identification
is also to beimplemented. Urbani reports an unusual outbreak of the illness, which he calls sudden acute respiratory syndrome or SARS, to the main office of the WHO. First cases of unusual pneumonia reported in Hanoi, Vietnam. |
Canadian researchers announce they have completed the
first successful sequencing of the genome of the coronavirus believed to
cause SARS. |
SARS; A Case Study in Emerging Infections |
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| 2004 | 143 people in Britain have been infected with variant CJD, and 180,000 cattle have been diagnosed with BSE | |||||||||
| 2005 | On March 29, 2005, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Entecavir for the treatment of hepatitis B | 
Hepatitis B and C: Management and Treatment, Second Edition |
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| 2006 | First vaccine for human papillomavirus | 
The Health Professional's HPV Handbook: Volume 1: Human Papillomavirus and Cervical Cancer |
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