UNICEF and partners took on Guinea worm, a debilitating parasitic disease. Joining them in that fight: former President Jimmy ...

Although no other infectious disease has been eradicated since 1979, several local and global eradication programmes have deadlines for 2010. The good news is that in 2010 a second infectious ...

This book fails to capture this essential aspect of global disease eradication—basic shoe-leather epidemiology—as relevant for polio eradication today as it was for the eradication of smallpox ...

To achieve the goal of a global effort for FMD control and eradication, the next 5 years are critical. Large parts of the world such as South America are at the brink of eradicating FMD with ...

As the world marks the World Tuberculosis Day, experts at the St George’s University, SGU, School of Medicine in Grenada, West Indies, have emphasised the issue of prevention to eradicate the ...

In 1986, Carter took charge of the global Guinea Worm Eradication Program, in line with the Carter Center’s goal of “eradication, elimination and control of neglected tropical diseases.” ...