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The Philosophy of Disease Eradication
American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health, 1963 WE SHALL discuss certain generalizations regarding principles and practices which rationalize efforts to eradicate communicable diseases, vis-avis those aimed at their control. While the unqualified word "eradication" may be understood to signify the world-wide extermination of a biologic species, e.g., of an agent or a vector or a reservoir of human ...
J M, ANDREWS, A D, LANGMUIR
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The ethics of disease eradication
Vaccine, 2014 This paper provides an examination of the ethics of disease eradication policies. It examines three arguments that have been advanced for thinking that eradication is in some way ethically exceptional as a policy goal. These are (1) global eradication has symbolic importance, (2) disease eradication is a global public good and (3) disease eradication ...
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Disease reservoirs: from conceptual frameworks to applicable criteria
Emerging Microbes and Infections, 2017 Central to the One Health approach and any disease eradication program is the question of whether a pathogen has a non-human reservoir. Despite well-established conceptual frameworks that define a reservoir of infection, empirical characterization of ...
Luisa K Hallmaier-Wacker +2 more
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Can probiotics improve efficiency and safety profile of triple Helicobacter pylori eradication therapy? A prospective randomized study [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2016 Background/Aim. Some studies suggest the benefit of applying different probiotic strains in combination with antibiotics in the eradication of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection.
Grgov Saša +3 more
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Antibiotics, 2021 The misuse and overuse of antibiotics have resulted in an alarmingly high prevalence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in human and animal bacteria. European monitoring programmes show that AMR occurrence in food animals is lower in Sweden than in most ...
Martin Wierup +2 more
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Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2019 Many historical disease eradication campaigns have been characterized by large-scale mobilization and long-term campaigns of mass vaccination. As the duration of a program increases, the total cost also increases, but the effectiveness and sustainability
Angus R. Cameron
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Animals, 2022 Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is a highly contagious infectious disease of small ruminants caused by peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV). PPR poses a significant threat to sheep and goat systems in over 65 endemic countries across Africa, the ...
Matteo Legnardi +10 more
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International Archives of Otorhinolaryngology, 2017 Introduction A majority of otolaryngologists have not had direct experience with many vaccine-preventable diseases since the creation of national vaccination programs.
Christopher J. Greenlee +1 more
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Six challenges in the eradication of infectious diseases. [PDF]
, 2014 Eradication and elimination are increasingly a part of the global health agenda. Once control measures have driven infection to low levels, the ecology of disease may change posing challenges for eradication efforts.
Funk, S. +20 more
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Frontiers in Veterinary ScienceSalmonella is a globally prevalent foodborne zoonotic pathogen, with poultry and its products serving as the primary epidemiological reservoirs. As a core upstream component of the poultry industry chain, breeder farms can harbor Salmonella that ...
Qian Wang +5 more
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