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CSU 45/2009: THE END OF LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS

CSU 45/2009: THE END OF LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS     The underpublicized campaign against LF has benefited from the new WHO priority for neglected tropical diseases. Writing in the BMJ, Bockarie and Molyneux describe the progress made in the l ... read more

CSU 46/2009: ONCHOCERCIASIS CONTROL AND ELIMINATIO ...

CSU 46/2009: ONCHOCERCIASIS CONTROL AND ELIMINATION / SEVENTH IN A SERIES  AFRICA  Since the late ‘80s, onchocerciasis control, originally based on vector control, has had as its mainstay the periodic distribution of ivermectin duri ... read more

CSU 73/2009: DISEASE ERADICATION

           CSU 73/2009: DISEASE ERADICATION  This good general introduction is from the Wikipedia. Their list includes several diseases not always included in lists of eradicable diseas ... read more

CSU 59/2010: SIX ON ERADICATION

CSU 59/2010: SIX ON ERADICATIONReaders of these updates will remember the uneven progress of disease radication initiatives dating back to the 1950s. Here are six ontributions on the subject, old and new.Good reading.BD1) A good backgrounder, th ... read more

CSU 117/2010: HISTORY OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZA ...

CSU 117/2010: HISTORY OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION  In 2004, WHO authorized the issuance of a series of volumes summarizing, in decades, the history of the organization.   The first three volumes of this historical  series are ... read more

CSU 117/2010: HISTORY OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZA ...

CSU 117/2010: HISTORY OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   In 2004, WHO authorized the issuance of a series of volumes summarizing, by decades, the history of the organization. The first three volumes of this historical  series are av ... read more

CSU 126/2010: FOUR ON RINDERPEST ERADICATION

CSU 126/2010:  FOUR ON RINDERPEST ERADICATION In October 2010, nine years after the last reported case, the FAO declared rinderpest eradicated. From Roeder's list of factors favoring rinderpest eradication, BMJ, below: Active, adaptive ... read more

CSU 127/2010: ERADICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

CSU 127/2010: ERADICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES I last ran this Wikipedia article in 2009. What has changed since then? Giant reductions in polio incidence, especially in India and Nigeria FAO declaration of rinderpest eradication Measles elim ... read more