Dr. William Foege, who helped eradicate smallpox, dies
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On May 8, 1980, forty-five years ago, the World Health Organization, a part of the United Nations, announced that officials had eradicated smallpox from the world’s population. The last case ...
GENEVA — A World Health Organization committee has recommended approval for genetically altering the smallpox virus to make it easier to determine whether drugs to tackle the disease are effective ...
Although the world’s first vaccine, for smallpox, was a wonderful invention, it would be an error to assume that smallpox ...
Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director and public health legend Willam Foege, MD, MPH, passed away ...
Well, this is disconcerting. According to an announcement today from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), vials of the smallpox virus were found in a lab in Maryland that was not only ...
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Frozen vials labeled “smallpox” that were recently discovered at a Pennsylvania facility contained no trace of the virus that causes the eradicated disease, according to the ...
The center has live samples of Ebola and smallpox. Moscow -- A gas explosion shook a Soviet-era biological weapons lab in Siberia that houses samples of Ebola and smallpox on Monday. At least one ...
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