His containment strategy helped wipe out the disease in the 1970s, one of the world’s greatest public health triumphs. He ...
He was director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and held other key leadership roles in campaigns ...
Foege also led efforts to end polio, and said in 2013 that the project was close to success. That victory, though, may be ...
Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director and public health legend Willam Foege, MD, MPH, passed away ...
William Foege, a Decorah-born physician who led the CDC and pioneered the strategy that helped eradicate smallpox, died Jan.
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 ...
William (Bill) Foege, credited by many for shepherding the smallpox eradication effort to completion, died Saturday at the ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Imperfect isolation can’t eradicate smallpox The lack of laser-focus on isolation meant that many avoidable gaps remained in ...
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