FOEGE, William Herbert
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Selective epidemiologic control in smallpox eradication.Amer. J. Epidemiology, 94, 311-315, 1971.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. Subjects: EPIDEMIOLOGY, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Smallpox › Vaccination |
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House on fire: The fight to eradicate smallpox.Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2011.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] Subjects: EPIDEMIOLOGY › History of Epidemiology, Global Health, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Smallpox › History of Smallpox |
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The fears of the rich, the needs of the poor: My years at the CDC,Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.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 immunization in developing countries and, among many other achievements, the transformation of the CDC from a program on malaria to the observatory of world epidemiology. Subjects: BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works) › Autobiography, EPIDEMIOLOGY › History of Epidemiology, Global Health, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health |