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Prospects for the Eradication of Infectious Diseases
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 1984The meaning of eradication, which is an irreversible conclusion, is considered primarily to distinguish it from elimination, which is reversible from outside the area. Poliomyelitis and measles are at present the diseases for which conditions most favor an attempt to produce eradication. Poliomyelitis has now reached a frequency in the developing world
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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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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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Disease Elimination and Eradication
2022This 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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Measles: a disease that has to be eradicated
Annals of Tropical Paediatrics, 1999The incidence of measles is on the decline but it still claims the lives of one million children annually worldwide. The devastating effects of the disease on the health and nutrition of children in developing countries and its high mortality are well documented. The rapid decay of maternal antibodies in infants in developing countries results in early
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Eradication of Legionnaires' disease
Medical Journal of Australia, 1992I L, Maclaine-cross, M, Behnia
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Disease Eradication and Control in the Americas
Biologicals, 1993C A, de Quadros, D A, Henderson
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A career in disease eradication
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 1992openaire +2 more sources