William H. Foege
Auteur de House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox
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William H. Foege, Senior Fellow at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has held a succession of distinguished positions, including Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Professor and Health Policy Fellow at Emory University. Before becoming director of the CDC, he was chief of its afficher plus Smallpox Eradication Program. Foege is the author of Global Health Leadership and Management and the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Social Courage. afficher moins
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- Date de naissance
- 1936-03-12
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- male
- Professions
- epidemiologist
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Foege captures the ups and downs of the programme with evocative descriptions of his time in Africa and India. In West Africa he came across 'fetisheurs': the traditional point-of-call for people suffering from smallpox. When business was slow they would use scabs they had collected from smallpox patients to start new outbreaks.
Foege pioneered a surveillance/containment approach to eradicating the disease which was found to be more successful than mass vaccination. It had its critics who, ironically, were bolstered by the effectiveness of the surveillance, which in some endemic states in India were revealing one thousand new cases a day.
The book hits a slight low point in the chapter 'A Gorgeous Coalition', which is essentially a list of colleagues, but is otherwise an exciting read with many vignettes of the personal risks taken and the determination to succeed. And let's face it - it has a very happy ending.… (plus d'informations)