William Foege, Iowa-born CDC chief who helped beat smallpox, dies at 89

William Foege, a Decorah-born physician who led the CDC and pioneered the strategy that helped eradicate smallpox, died Jan.

William Foege, Leader in Smallpox Eradication, Dies

William Foege, a leader of one of humanity’s greatest public health victories — the global eradication of smallpox — has died ...

What if the smallpox vaccine had not been invented? – Part 2

Imperfect isolation can’t eradicate smallpox The lack of laser-focus on isolation meant that many avoidable gaps remained in ...

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 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 ...

William Foege, medical pioneer who helped stamp out smallpox, has died

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 ...
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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 ...
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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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Smallpox is still a threat to America, 40 years after its eradication

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 ...
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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 ...