His containment strategy helped wipe out the disease in the 1970s, one of the world’s greatest public health triumphs. He also led the C.D.C. and promoted childhood vaccination worldwide.
William H. Foege in 1985. He played a critical role in making smallpox the first infectious disease to be altogether eliminated. He stood beside a bust of Hygeia, the Greek goddess of health, at C.D.C. headquarters in Atlanta.
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