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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.
William Foege, a Decorah-born physician who led the CDC and pioneered the strategy that helped eradicate smallpox, died Jan.
Dr. William Foege, a leader of one of humanity's greatest public health victories — the global eradication of smallpox — has ...
His containment strategy helped wipe out the disease in the 1970s, one of the world’s greatest public health triumphs. He ...
Nov. 5 -- Smallpox vaccines are being administered to a number of health-care workers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The inoculations will help boost the ability to control a ...
William (Bill) Foege, credited by many for shepherding the smallpox eradication effort to completion, died Saturday at the ...
Though the last case of smallpox in the United States occurred in 1949, a Tucson physician treated cases in other parts of the world before the disease was eradicated. Dr. Vincent Fulginiti spent time ...
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 ...