Most Viewed Items on Disease Eradication, 2016

Monday, 26th of December 2016

Most Viewed Items on Disease Eradication, 2016

“Disease eradication, best buy,” at https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/jhub-euo020416.php, summarizes a study from Johns Hopkins showing $44 in return for every dollar spent on vaccination.

Smallpox continues to exercise a fascination on you, our readers, with three items this year on the subject. Expect a memorial volume in 2017 on the eradication of smallpox in Ethiopia, in memory of the late, great Ciro de Quadros, who started his career in disease eradication in that country.

There are also items on malaria elimination and guinea worm. The discovery of canine transmission of guinea worm in Chad presents elimination challenges in that country.

Expect items on onchocerciasis in 2017, as Central America and West Africa move towards historically low incidence levels. Comordibity of onchocerciasis and Loa loa presents challenges to ivermectin use in some areas.

The Role of Chance in Smallpox Eradication

http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=6406

231

The path to eradication: a progress report on the malaria-eliminating countries

http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=5922

169

More Insights on Smallpox Eradication in India

http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=6314

150

Meeting of the International Task Force for Disease Eradication, November 2015 http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=5612	134
Guinea worm disease nears eradication http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=5519	131
News From Addis Ababa/ Disease Eradication, Best Buy http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=5639	130
Smallpox in the Posteradication Era http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=6028	109