disease eradication
Wiping out sickness
Disease eradication is the permanent, worldwide elimination of a disease—reducing its incidence to zero so that no further control measures are needed.
Only smallpox has been eradicated; polio and guinea worm are close.
Eradication differs from elimination, which removes disease from a specific region but not globally.
The campaign for disease eradication requires sustained international coordination.
- herd immunityWidespread resistance protecting all
- smallpoxDeadly pustular viral infection
- vaccinationAdministered immunity booster
- mass immunizationWidespread protective inoculation effort
- quarantineIsolation preventing disease transmission
zero cases · surveillance · WHO · epidemiology · polio · healthcare access · last mile · global cooperation · UNICEF · pathogen · social equity · vaccination campaigns · door to door · virology · poverty reduction · certification · finish line · immunology
- global healthpandemic, World Health Organization, medications, pandemics, epidemic
- public healthimmunization, health education, epidemiology, community health, health policy
- Carter Centerelection monitoring, peace negotiations, river blindness, trachoma, global health
- Jimmy CarterJimmy Carter, peanut farmer, Camp David Accords, Iran hostage crisis, presidency
- epidemiologyepidemic, epidemiology, pandemic, outbreak, endemic
- African healthmalaria, HIV, cholera, tuberculosis, TB
disease eradicationendemic disease
Disease always present locally
disease control · disease management · containment · mitigation · harm reduction
disease eradicationdisease outbreak
Rapid spread of illness
epidemic · pandemic · disease spread · outbreak · disease transmission