Infectious Disease Response
Since its inception in 1969, USAMRIID has supported disease outbreak investigations across the nation and around the globe. A brief timeline appears below. Support includes any or all of the following core capabilities:
- Consultation with subject matter experts
- Definitive diagnostic testing
- Genome sequencing and analysis
- Training of field laboratory personnel
- Development and testing of vaccines, drugs, and diagnostics for potential emergency use
1969
- Venezuelan equine encephalitis, South America
1977
- Rift Valley fever, Egypt
1982
- Lassa fever patients quarantined at USAMRIID
- Chikungunya, Indonesia
- Eastern equine encephalitis, Maryland, US
1985
- Korean hemorrhagic fever (KHF) clinical trial
- Junin virus vaccine trial
- KHF in US Marines, Okinawa
1987
- Ebola virus, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
- Lassa fever, West Africa
- Rift Valley fever, Senegal River Basin
1988
- Infant botulism, San Francisco, US
1989
- Reston virus, Virginia, US
1993
- Sin Nombre virus, Four Corners, US
1995
- Ebola virus, Zaire
- Rift valley Fever, Kenya
- Ebola, Ivory Coast
1999
- West Nile virus, New York, US
2001
- Anthrax letters (FL, NY, DC), US
2002
- Ebola, Ivory Coast
2003
- SARS (multiple states), US
2006
- Plague, Colorado, US
- Tularemia, Thailand
- Monkeypox, DRC
- Lassa fever, West Africa
2013
- MERS, Arabian Peninsula
2014
- Ebola, West Africa
2016
- Zika virus, South America
2019
- Ebola virus, DRC
2020
- COVID-19, worldwide
2021
- Monkeypox, US
2022
- Ebola Sudan virus, Uganda
2023
- Marburg virus, Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania
Last Modified Date: 27-Jul-2023