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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.

Though the last case of smallpox in the United States occurred in 1949, a Tucson physician treated cases in other parts of the world before the disease was eradicated. Dr. Vincent Fulginiti spent time ...

Luckily, we live in a time where we don't have to worry about smallpox anymore. It's a horrible disease, but through smart vaccination techniques, we took it from killing millions worldwide, to being ...

Dr. William Foege, a leader of one of humanity's greatest public health victories — the global eradication of smallpox — has ...

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 ...