Historical Bibliography Updated: July 14, 2026

House on fire: The fight to eradicate smallpox.

FOEGE, William Herbert (1936 – ) Wikipedia

Berkeley & Los Angeles & 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]

Facet Tags

Plagues & Epidemics

Subjects

EPIDEMIOLOGY › History of Epidemiology Global Health INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Smallpox › History of Smallpox

Catalog Metadata	Reference Information
Entry Number	#10625
Permanent Link	https://beta.historyofmedicine.com/id/12818
Author Bio Link	Wikipedia ↗
External URL	house-on-fire-the-fight-to-eradicate-smallpox

Geographic Context

Publication places: Berkeley & Los Angeles; Berkeley & Los Angeles