New York, Jan. 26 -- American physician William H. Foege, who developed the smallpox vaccination strategy that led to the eradication of the disease in the 1970s, has died at the age of 89 on Saturday evening at his home in Atlanta, the New York Times reported.
The publication called the smallpox eradication half a century ago "one of the world's greatest public health triumphs."The cause of death, according to Foege's friend and colleague Mark Rosenberg, was chronic heart failure.
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