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Polio eradication and endgame strategic plan 2013-2018

Since its launch at the World Health Assembly (WHA) in 1988, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) has reduced the global incidence of polio by more than 99% and the number of countries with endemic polio from 125 to 3.

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South Sudan’s journey to defeat Guinea Worm Disease: The role of President Jimmy Carter and the Carter Center

South Sudan Medical Journal
Guinea Worm Disease (GWD), caused by the parasitic worm Dracunculus medinensis, is a debilitating condition characterized by painful skin ulcers. This waterborne disease, transmitted by ingesting contaminated drinking water infected with the larvae poses
Makoy Samuel Yibi Logora
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Mechanical excavation of wetland habitat failed to eradicate invasive American red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii) in Malta

Ecological Solutions and Evidence
Invasive crayfish are an important ecological concern in many freshwater ecosystems. Many efforts have been made to eradicate them, but there is very little documentation of the effectiveness of these efforts. Between 2019 and 2020, a restoration project
Alex Caruana, Benjamin Camilleri, Luke Farrugia, Julia P. G. Jones   +3 more
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Winners and losers from Johne’s disease eradication from the Scottish dairy herd: a Markov-Chain simulation [PDF]

In this paper, we evaluated the welfare effects of a hypothetical programme of Johne's disease eradication from the Scottish dairy herd on different stakeholders in the domestic milk market. We undertook the evaluation using a Markov-Chain simulation and
Weldegebriel, Habtu T., Gunn, George J., Stott, Alistair W.   +2 more
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Status of smallpox eradication activities

, 1968
"Smallpox Eradication Seminar, Kinshasa, 19-26 November 1968."SE/68.412 ...
World Health Organization, Smallpox Eradication Seminar (1968 : Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo)   +1 more
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Entomological handbook for Aedes aegypti eradication [PDF]

"Eradication of an insect from a large geographical area is a most difficult entomological accomplishment. Moderately effective measures often suffice to reduce insect populations to an inoffensive level, but eradication requires a sharpening and ...

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Handbook of general information on Aedes aegypti eradication [PDF]

"Eradication of the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti from the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands was begun in 1964 as a cooperative program of the state and local health departments and Communicable Disease Center of the U.S.

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Smallpox eradication project Punjab 1972 : some aspects of smallpox eradication in Lahore / G.D. Souleimanov

, 1972
"Training Seminar on Smallpox Eradication, Karachi, 14-18 November 1972."SE/WP/PAK/72.113 ...
WHO Training Seminar on Smallpox Eradication (1972 : Karachi, Pakistan), World Health Organization, Souleimanov, G. D   +2 more
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Status of smallpox eradication activities : country, Botswana

, 1968
"Smallpox Eradication Seminar, Kinshasa, 19-26 November 1968."SE/68.1312 ...
World Health Organization, Smallpox Eradication Seminar (1968 : Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo)   +1 more
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Global smallpox eradication [PDF]

The historically important dates highlighted in the map show countries in which the last naturally acquired cases of smallpox occured.The years for each continent correspond to the year when the disease was eradicated there.Publication date from document

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