When Dr William Foege died earlier this month, the world mourned the loss of a scientist who helped rid humanity of a virus that had plagued the Earth for thousands of years.
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William Foege, doctor and scientist whose ‘ring vaccination’ strategy helped to eradicate smallpox
William Foege, who has died aged 89, was the epidemiologist responsible for devising a successful vaccination strategy in the ...
William Foege, a leader of one of humanity’s greatest public health victories — the global eradication of smallpox — has died ...
William (Bill) Foege, credited by many for shepherding the smallpox eradication effort to completion, died Saturday at the ...
Dr. William H. Foege, an international public health giant credited as a visionary in the earliest days of Bill and Melinda Gates’ global health programs, and who developed the vaccination strategy ...
His containment strategy helped wipe out the disease in the 1970s, one of the world’s greatest public health triumphs. He ...
Imperfect isolation can’t eradicate smallpox The lack of laser-focus on isolation meant that many avoidable gaps remained in ...
If you’ve watched the HBO miniseries on founding father John Adams, you probably recall the scene in which his wife Abigail inoculates her young children against smallpox by inserting pus from an ...
An ad hoc committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will conduct a study to examine lessons learned from the recent Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and ...
If you watched the riveting HBO miniseries on founding father John Adams, you surely recall the scene in which his wife, Abigail, inoculates her young children against smallpox by inserting pus from ...
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