Myth of the fat dodo. The birdâs obesity, slowness and lack of intelligence are commonly given as reasons for its alleged evolutionary inferiority. Dodoes were for years considered not just large, but grossly overweightâto the point that they not only couldnât fly, but could hardly run from their enemies.
The HPV strains that Gardasil protects against are sexually transmitted. The vaccine was approved in the US on June 8, 2006 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In 2008, Gardasil was approved in 41 of U.S. states. The Gardasil vaccine has also been approved in 120 other countries.
The first vaccine against Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) disease was licensed in the United States in 1985. The HbPV polysaccharide vaccine was used until 1988. Porter W. Anderson, Jr, PhD, and David H. Smith, MD (1932-1999), had begun working in 1968 on extracting and purifying the polysaccharide outer coating of the bacteria.