Deadly Disease Timeline 1961 - 1970 |
| Year | disease (findings) / outbreaks | scientific reasearch/cure | Medicines | Articles | ||||||
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| 1961 | Chloroquine resistance developed in Plasmodium falciparum
strains from South America and Southeat Asia and spread to most of the world
except Africa. |
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| 1962 | First oral polio vaccine | |||||||||
| 1963 | Cholera outbreak in Bangladesh | First vaccine for measles | 
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| 1964 | Cholera outbreak in India | 
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| 1966 | Cholera outbreak in USSR | |||||||||
| 1967 | The human diploid cell rabies vaccine (H.D.C.V.) was started in 1967. | First vaccine for mumps | 
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| 1968 | Rickets : Hector F. DeLuca and colleagues isolate an active vitamin D metabolite and identify it as 25-hydroxyvitamin D3. They later prove that the substance is produced in the liver. | |||||||||
| 1969 | It was recognised that eradication was not achievable
in many areas and that instead the goal should be control. Problems with
eradication stemmed from geographical differences in behaviour of Anopheles
which made a uniform control approach ineffective, and also support from
local communities was often lacking. |
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| 1970 | WHO's expert committee estimated that an aircraft release of 50 kg of anthrax over a 5 million population would kill 250,000 - 100,000 of whom would die without treatment. | Diabetes : Blood glucose meters and insulin pumps are
developed. Cell free anthrax vaccine for humans a sterile filtrate of cultures from an avirulent noncapsulated strain that elaborates protective antigen was licensed in the United States |
First vaccine for rubella | 
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