Indications for the Implementation of Stamping-out Measures for Animal Disease Control in Africa

Prevention, control and eradication are three categories of actions used in relation to disease prophylactic activities. Prevention refers to measures taken to exclude diseases, or their causative agent from a healthy population, while control refers to actions taken to reduce the frequency of an existing disease to levels that can be locally tolerated. Eradication, on the other hand, refers to complete elimination of an existing disease or its causative agent from an affected population or area within a given time.