The successful eradication of smallpox in 1977 and the ongoing campaigns to eradicate dracunculiasis by 1995 and poliomyelitis by 2000 should ensure that eradication of selected diseases will continue to be used as a powerful tool of international public health. (cdc.gov)
We also envision the eradication of dracunculiasis ยท providing safe sources of drinking-water (guinea-worm disease) from the Region. (who.int)
Dracunculiasis - Guinea Worm Disease - Is Close to Eradication. (medscape.com)
When in 1986 the Carter Center took the reins of the global dracunculiasis eradication campaign, India was the only country with a national program to get rid of the disease. (medscape.com)
Fact sheet No 098: Dracunculiasis Eradication - Revised March 1998 (WHO, 1998, 2 p. (nzdl.org)
Eradicate dracunculiasis1
This enormous reduction in prevalence is a direct effect of campaigns by endemic countries assisted by organizations such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Carter Center (a not-for-profit founded in 1982 by Jimmy Carter), which have strived since the 1980s to eradicate dracunculiasis, hoping to make it the second human disease purposefully wiped off the face of Earth. (medscape.com)
3. The Regional Office's commitment to This report provides an overview of the status eradicating dracunculiasis (guinea-worm disease) of communicable diseases in the Region, and from southern Sudan, and therefore the world, progress in disease control during 2005-2009 is evidenced by a 25% decrease in incidence through six regional visions. (who.int)
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A dramatic reduction of the incidence of poliomyelitis in industrialized countries followed the development of a vaccine in the 1950s. (wikipedia.org)