A 58-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital 3 weeks after lumbar surgery because of diplopia and fever. Left leg pain and a rash had preceded the fever and diplopia. A diagnosis was made.

Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director and public health legend Willam Foege, MD, MPH, passed away ...

Doctors at the Ambulatory Care Unit of the Cluj-Napoca Infectious Diseases Hospital will be able to prescribe culture as a ...

As a young CDC doctor, Dr. Foege devised the vaccination strategy that led to the global eradication of smallpox - one of the ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from Colombia has revealed the oldest known genome of the bacterium linked to syphilis and related ...

William Foege, a leader of one of humanity’s greatest public health victories — the global eradication of smallpox — has died ...

William (Bill) Foege, credited by many for shepherding the smallpox eradication effort to completion, died Saturday at the ...

Dr. William Foege, credited with saving millions of lives because of his work leading the global eradication of smallpox, has died at 89.

His containment strategy helped wipe out the disease in the 1970s, one of the world’s greatest public health triumphs. He ...

Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum – the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...

Evidence of Treponema bacteria in a prehistoric hunter-gatherer proves the pathogen was endemic to the Americas earlier than ...