The former CDC director was also a leader in campaigns against international health proble ...

A leader in the global fight against smallpox and a champion of vaccine science, William Foege died last Saturday ...

Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director and public health legend Willam Foege, MD, MPH, passed away ...

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 ...

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

Smallpox was eradicated in 1977. This amazing, global public health achievement isn’t just a page in a history book or an entry in Wikipedia, it is highly relevant today. Understanding the ...

Dr. William Foege, a leader of one of humanity's greatest public health victories — the global eradication of smallpox — has died.Foege died Saturday in Atlanta at the age of 89, according to the Task ...

Scientists went to extraordinary lengths to eradicate smallpox from the world. Rahima Banu is now recorded as having the last known... How Rahima came to hold a special place in smallpox history — and ...

Smallpox, the only human infectious disease to have been successfully eradicated, ailed people at least 1,000 years earlier than previously thought. A study of DNA sampled from Viking Age skeletons ...

More than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, people are getting used to the idea that the virus isn't going to disappear. Scientists predict that COVID will likely become endemic, a permanent part ...