People are beginning to understand there is nothing in the world so remote that it can’t impact you as a person. It’s not just diseases. Economists are now beginning to say if we are going to have good markets in Africa, we’re going to have to have healthy people in Africa.
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Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get.
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William Foege (4)
Birth: | 12th March, 1936 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Physician, Professor, Writer |
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William Foege is an American epidemiologist who is credited with "devising the global strategy that led to the eradication of smallpox in the late 1970s". Foege also "played a central role" in efforts that greatly increased immunization rates in developing countries in the 1980s.
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