Progress towards guinea worm disease eradication.Progress towards Guinea worm eradication: WHO certification.Prevalence, new cases and deaths from HIV/AIDS.Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis without extensive drug resistance.Incidence, prevalence and death of rabies.Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis.Decade in which smallpox ceased to be endemic by country.Deaths from infections of currently non-eradicable diseases.Deaths caused by smallpox as a share of all deaths in London.Cholera deaths in Great Britain over the long-term.Cases of paralytic polio by world region.Efforts to eradicate or eliminate additional diseases from parts of the world such as malaria, trachoma, river blindness and yaws are underway.The world has eradicated two diseases: Smallpox and Rinderpest.Eradicable diseases usually need to meet the following criteria: it’s an infectious disease, humans are the major host of for the disease, effective vaccines or treatments are available for the disease, and there is political and financial support for the eradication efforts. ![]() ![]() Diseases that are considered eradicable today are: polio, Guinea worm disease, lymphatic filariasis, cysticercosis, measles, mumps and rubella. ![]() In this entry we look at the progress the world has made in eradicating diseases, what makes a disease eradicable and which diseases we can hope to eradicate in the future. In theory, many diseases could be eradicated, in practice, only a handful of diseases meet the criteria that make them eradicable with current knowledge, institutions, and technology. The ultimate goal in the fight against diseases is their eradication.
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