{
  "abstract": "As a young missionary doctor Bill Foege was sent with his wife and young son to eastern Nigeria: it was 1966 and the family lived in a four room mud hut with no plumbing or utilities, 145 km from the nearest telephone. The Biafra secessionist movement was on the brink of boiling over into open civil war and Foege immediately faced an outbreak of smallpox. “You could smell smallpox before you entered the room, and it smelled like death. It’s about as miserable a disease as you can imagine,” he said in an interview in 2017.1",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Washington, DC"
      ],
      "name": "Bob Roehr"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Bill Foege: leader in smallpox eradication and campaigner for global health equity",
  "uid": "56e0e961-7a5b-5b92-9c1b-58649b4a29a7"
}