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Global Disease Eradication

Journal of the European Economic Association, 2003
An infectious disease can only be eradicated globally if it is eliminated in every country. But does this require only international coordination, or does it require cooperation? Using a model that blends epidemiology, economics, and game theory, this paper shows that coordination will not always suffice, even when the global benefits of eradication ...
Cynthia A. Needham, Richard Canning
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Dracunculiasis (Guinea Worm Disease) Eradication

2006
Since the seminal review by Ralph Muller about Dracunculus and dracunculiasis in this serial publication in 1971, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and The Carter Center forged, during the 1980s, a coalition of organizations to support a campaign to eradicate dracunculiasis.
Ernesto, Ruiz-Tiben, Donald R, Hopkins
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Disease Elimination and Eradication

2022
This chapter explores the various aspects of disease control, elimination, and eradication. To eliminate a disease, several requirements must be fulfilled. A thorough understanding of agent transmission is needed, as well as the ability to interrupt this transmission.
Johannes Foufopoulos   +2 more
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The Eradication of Infectious Diseases

Parasitology Today, 1998
edited by W.R. Dowdle and D.R. Hopkins, Wiley, 1998. pound60.00 (hbk) (xv +218 pages) ISBN 0 471 98089 7.
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Toward Eradicating All Diseases

2021
Progress in biomedical sciences and engineering will take mankind closer to a world without disease. The objective of this chapter is to review and forecast research and technologies that contribute to eliminating all diseases. In addition to improved traditional therapeutics such as medicinal chemicals, antibiotics, vaccines, and antibodies, DNA and ...
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Perceptions and priorities in disease eradication: Dracunculiasis eradication in Africa

Social Science & Medicine, 1998
Dracunculiasis, guinea worm disease, is an incapacitating disease affecting people in poor, remote areas of Africa, in Yemen, and a few remaining areas of the Indian subcontinent where there is poor access to protected water sources. The neglect of this preventable disease and its belated recognition are analyzed within the context of changing ...
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