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    eradication of infectious diseases is the reduction of the prevalence of an infectious disease in the global host population to zero. Two infectious diseases...
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  • preferred term for "regional eradication" of a disease; the term "eradication" is reserved for the reduction of an infectious disease's global prevalence to zero...
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    Successful eradication of infectious diseases has been achieved twice before, with smallpox in humans and rinderpest in ruminants. Prevention of disease spread...
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  • modelling of infectious diseases is a tool that has been used to study the mechanisms by which diseases spread, to predict the future course of an outbreak...
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    Hospital-acquired infection Eradication of infectious diseases Infection control Isolation (health care) List of causes of death by rate List of diseases caused by insects...
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  • (2013). Oxford textbook of infectious disease control : a geographical analysis from medieval quarantine to global eradication (First ed.). Oxford: Oxford...
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  • Infectious diseases can be spread, directly or indirectly, from person to person, from animal to animal, or from animals to humans (zoonotic diseases)...
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  • heads of states on behalf of victims of human rights abuses. It also leads disease eradication efforts, spearheading the campaign to eradicate Guinea...
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  • "root". It may refer to: Eradication of infectious diseases, the reduction of the global incidence of an infectious disease in its host population to...
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  • more about it. Various health campaigns have taken the goal of eradicating infectious diseases. In such campaigns the organizers recruit the public to participate...
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    of Lyme infection in Africa. In East Africa, two cases of Lyme disease have been reported in Kenya. According The Federation of Infectious Diseases Societies...
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    global eradication of the disease in 1980, making smallpox the only human disease to have been eradicated to date. The initial symptoms of the disease included...
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    Pakistan as of 2021[update]. Eradication of infectious diseases The Final Inch, a short documentary about the effort to eradicate polio List of diseases eliminated...
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    Severe Leptospirosis (Weil's Diseases)? Report of a Leptospira Septic Shock Successfully Managed with ECMO". Infectious Disease Reports. 13 (3): 619–626....
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    Yaws (redirect from Eradication of yaws)
    "New treatment schemes for yaws: the path toward eradication" (pdf). Clinical Infectious Diseases. 55 (3): 406–412. doi:10.1093/cid/cis444. PMID 22610931...
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    of disease but it was gradually replaced by the germ theory of disease, leading to effective treatments and even cures for many infectious diseases....
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  • MP (1979). "Viral shedding patterns of children with influenza B infection". The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 140 (4): 610–613. doi:10.1093/infdis/140...
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    control, elimination, and eradication: the role of the evolving biomedical research agenda". The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 200 (11): 1639–1643. doi:10...
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  • diphtheria, measles, mumps, rubella, and influenza, and make the eradication of infectious diseases, particularly poliomyelitis, a realistic prospect. Although...
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    transmission Neglected Tropical Disease Research and Development Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative Eradication of infectious diseases Global Network for Neglected...
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    for Disease Control and Prevention (2011). "Tetanus". Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (CDC, Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable...
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  • deaths each year. Currently, polio and measles are the targets of active worldwide eradication campaigns. 1796 – Edward Jenner develops and documents first...
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    "The persisting burden of invasive pneumococcal disease in HIV patients: an observational cohort study". BMC Infectious Diseases. 11: 314. doi:10.1186/1471-2334-11-314...
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    Blueberry muffin baby Eradication of infectious diseases Exanthema subitum (roseola infantum) Atkinson W (2011). Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable...
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    greatly complicating eradication efforts, which now also had to be expanded to non-human hosts. The eradication of Guinea worm disease has faced several...
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    2009-03-10. Clem AS (January 2011). "Fundamentals of vaccine immunology". Journal of Global Infectious Diseases. 3 (1): 73–78. doi:10.4103/0974-777X.77299....
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    smallpox eradication campaign. Third-generation vaccines are based on attenuated strains of vaccinia and saw limited use prior to the eradication of smallpox...
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    each other Eradication of infectious diseases – when an infection declines until it no longer exists Vaccine-preventable diseases "Principles of Epidemiology...
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    worldwide campaign to eradicate the disease were ending, paving the way for a formal declaration in June 2011 of the global eradication of rinderpest. This...
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    Diphtheria and tetanus". In Jong EC, Stevens DL (eds.). Netter's Infectious Diseases (2nd ed.). Philadelphia: Elsevier. pp. 5–10. ISBN 978-0-323-71159-3...
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