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.

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

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 ...

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

If you watched the riveting HBO miniseries on founding father John Adams, you surely recall the scene in which his wife, Abigail, inoculates her young children against smallpox by inserting pus from ...

Imperfect isolation can’t eradicate smallpox The lack of laser-focus on isolation meant that many avoidable gaps remained in ...

FREDERICK, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BioFactura, Inc. today announced a contract awarded by the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) valued at up to $67.4 million for the ...