Timelines tagged “public-health”
5 timelines
- COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic from the Wuhan outbreak in 2019 to the 2025 pandemic agreement: global spread, social disruption, vaccines, variants, treatment, and the transition beyond the international emergency.
- Malaria
The history of malaria from Greek accounts of periodic fevers around 400 BCE through quinine, the discovery of the parasite and its mosquito vector, DDT-era eradication campaigns and artemisinin to the first vaccines in 2021 and 2023 and milestones through 2025.
- Toothbrush
The toothbrush and its companions, from ancient tooth powders, chew sticks and the miswak through the Chinese bristle brush and William Addis to nylon bristles, fluoride toothpaste, electric and connected brushes, and fluoride toothpaste's listing as a WHO essential medicine in 2021.
- Vaccines
Vaccines and their forerunner variolation, from smallpox inoculation in 16th-century China through Jenner, Pasteur, the polio campaigns and the eradication of smallpox in 1980 to mRNA and RSV vaccines in 2020 – 2023.
- Water Supply and Sanitation
Water and sanitation infrastructure from Indus cities around 2600 BCE to London's Thames Tideway Tunnel in 2025, covering filtration, sewers, disinfection, wastewater treatment and wider access.