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 ...
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Current State of Research, Development, and Stockpiling of Smallpox Medical Countermeasures

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 ...
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Frederick company gets money for smallpox research

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Frederick biotechnology company BioFactura has announced $7.8 million in new contract activations to study a treatment for a ...
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Public health giant William Foege, who helped eradicate smallpox, has died at 89

William (Bill) Foege, credited by many for shepherding the smallpox eradication effort to completion, died Saturday at the ...

William H. Foege, Key Figure in the Eradication of Smallpox, Dies at 89

His containment strategy helped wipe out the disease in the 1970s, one of the world’s greatest public health triumphs. He ...
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Tonix Pharmaceuticals Presents Development Update on Potential Smallpox and Monkeypox Vaccine TNX-801 in an Oral Presentation at the World Vaccine and Immunotherapy Congress

TNX-801 is Based on the Sequence of a Natural Isolate of Horsepox and is Believed Closer in Structure to Edward Jenner’s 1798 Vaccine than Modern Vaccinia Virus Vaccines Against Smallpox As presented ...
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The end of smallpox was ... the beginning for mpox

It all started with an unremarkable trip to grandma’s house in 1970. But two days into the visit, something went terribly wrong. The 9-month-old grandson fell ill. First, a fever. Then, a nasty rash.