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.
William Foege Quotes
Vaccines are the tugboats of preventive health.
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| 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.
