His containment strategy helped wipe out the disease in the 1970s, one of the world’s greatest public health triumphs. He ...
William Foege, a Decorah-born physician who led the CDC and pioneered the strategy that helped eradicate smallpox, died Jan.
William Foege, a leader of one of humanity’s greatest public health victories — the global eradication of smallpox — has died ...
Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director and public health legend Willam Foege, MD, MPH, passed away ...
William H. Foege, who died on January 24 at the age of 89, was not yet a giant of public health when he arrived in northern ...
Foege also led efforts to end polio, and said in 2013 that the project was close to success. That victory, though, may be ...
William (Bill) Foege, credited by many for shepherding the smallpox eradication effort to completion, died Saturday at the ...
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 ...
Vaccinating children under five-years-old in endemic mpox regions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) would significantly reduce the number of deaths in the country, according to an analysis ...
Imperfect isolation can’t eradicate smallpox The lack of laser-focus on isolation meant that many avoidable gaps remained in ...
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