Dr William Foege RIP.

[SydneyRover]

...''But his greatest achievement came before all that, with his work on smallpox, one of the most lethal diseases in human history. For centuries, it killed about one-third of the people it infected and left most survivors with deep scars on their faces from the pus-filled lesions.

Smallpox vaccination campaigns were well established by the time Foege was a young doctor. Indeed, it was no longer seen in the United States. But infections were still occurring elsewhere, and efforts to stamp them out were stalling.

Working as a medical missionary in Nigeria in the 1960s, Foege and his colleagues developed a “ring containment” strategy, in which a smallpox outbreak was contained by identifying each smallpox case and vaccinating everyone who the patients might come into contact with.

The method relied heavily on quick detective work and was born out of necessity. There simply wasn’t enough vaccine available to immunize everyone, Foege wrote in “House on Fire,” his 2011 book about the smallpox eradication effort.

It worked, and became pivotal in helping rid the world of smallpox for good. The last naturally occurring case was seen in Somalia in 1977. In 1980, the World Health Organization declared smallpox eradicated from the Earth.

“If you look at the simple metric of who has saved the most lives, he is right up there with the pantheon. Smallpox eradication has prevented hundreds of millions of deaths,” said former CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden, who consulted with Foege regularly'' ...

https://apnews.com/article/william-foege-smallpox-cdc-73770ffe382e48829a87fee0b364a3d1

[i_ateallthepies]

So, he's the guy responsible for the over-population of the planet...

[Donnywolf]

No , that's Musk

[SydneyRover]

So, he's the guy responsible for the over-population of the planet...

That's a measely answer pies.

[i_ateallthepies]

Puts my teeth on edge every time I see miserly spelt incorrectly, Sidney, but I suspect you wasn't actually meaning miserly here.