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 ...
William Foege helped give us a world without smallpox. We’re marking his death by letting measles come back. Had William ...
Experts warn that declining immunity after smallpox eradication could allow related poxviruses to trigger the next pandemic.
His containment strategy helped wipe out the disease in the 1970s, one of the world’s greatest public health triumphs. He ...
William Foege, who has died aged 89, was the epidemiologist responsible for devising a successful vaccination strategy in the ...
In 1970s India, the physician and epidemiologist Larry Brilliant played an important role in efforts that eradicated smallpox caused by the deadliest form of the virus, variola major. Since then, he ...
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 ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In 1967, the World Health Organization (WHO) initiated a program of world-wide eradication of smallpox through mass immunization and the vigorous ...
The head of the World Health Organization believes the ongoing mpox outbreaks in Africa might be stopped in the next six months, and said Friday that the agency's first shipment of vaccines should ...