FOEGE, William Herbert (1936 – )
1936 –
3 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1971 CE
#13787
Selective epidemiologic control in smallpox eradication.
Foege showed that "ring containment", selective vaccination of those at greatest risk, in closest proximity to an outbreak, was more effective in eradicating smallpox than mass vaccination.
2011 CE
#10625
House on fire: The fight to eradicate smallpox.
Foege, as director of the Centers for Disease Control, is credited with "devising the global strategy that led to the eradication of smallpox in the late 1970s".[4]
2018 CE
#10626
The fears of the rich, the needs of the poor: My years at the CDC,
Director of the Centers for Disease Control from 1977-1983, and President and Co-Founder of The Task Force for Global Heath, 1984-1999, Foege was instrumental in the eradication of smallpox, the generalization of immu…