The ongoing global monkeypox outbreak is mainly affecting gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (MSM) in countries where the virus has previously not been endemic. One approach to control ...

Medically reviewed by Geetika Gupta, MD Key Takeaways Dr. Edward Jenner invented the first vaccine for smallpox in ...

Foege also led efforts to end polio, and said in 2013 that the project was close to success. That victory, though, may be ...

In the early 1800s, Denmark’s government, medical community, church leaders and school teachers all united to promote the new smallpox vaccine, which led to a remarkably quick elimination of the disea ...

This article is republished from the Council on Foreign Relations. Read the original article here. Vaccination campaigns are widely considered to be a public health success story. Since Edward Jenner ...

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 ...

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Clear proof that isolation was the remedy There are a number of proofs (apart from Haygarth’s experiment and Leicester) that it was isolation, not ring vaccination, that eradicated smallpox. First, we ...

Pioneering biostatistician and infectious disease expert Dr. Elizabeth Halloran recently transitioned to emerita after a ...

H. Foege, a former CDC director who helped eradicate smallpox and whose health work saved millions of lives, died Saturday in Atlanta at the age of 89.