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.

DEADLY smallpox, which claimed the lives of an estimated 500 million people in the 20th century, could help trigger the next ...

It all started with an unremarkable trip to grandma’s house in 1970. But two days into the visit, something went terribly wrong. The 9-month-old grandson fell ill. First, a fever. Then, a nasty rash.

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

During the Revolutionary War, more American soldiers died from disease than from musket shot. One out of every three soldiers infected with smallpox died. In the cramped conditions of military ...

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

William Foege, who has died aged 89, was the epidemiologist responsible for devising a successful vaccination strategy in the ...

His containment strategy helped wipe out the disease in the 1970s, one of the world’s greatest public health triumphs. He ...

This year it’s COVID-19. But years ago, particularly among Native Americans, the feared disease was smallpox. Bernie Webb, formerly of Carrington, N.D., and now of Gettysburg, S.D., sent a report ...

Although the world’s first vaccine, for smallpox, was a wonderful invention, it would be an error to assume that smallpox ...