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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...

From a public health perspective the disease of smallpox was officially declared eradicated in 1980 – the result of a successful global initiative led by the World Health Organization (WHO), the first and to date only success against a disease in humans. The world could celebrate its freedom from a dreaded disease. Much of the literature about the history of smallpox – a disease that has fascin...

BACKGROUND Helicobacter pylori eradication triple therapy with a combination of lansoprazole, amoxicillin and clarithromycin was approved in Japan in September 2000. AIM To compare the cost-effectiveness of this eradication therapy with conventional histamine-2 receptor antagonist therapy in Japan. METHODS We established two Markov models for gastric and duodenal ulcers. The model design wa...

BACKGROUND Five major disease eradication initiatives were initiated during the second half of the 20th century. The enabling and constraining factors-political, social, economic, and other-for these previous and current eradication programs can inform decision making regarding a proposed measles eradication initiative. METHODS We reviewed the literature on the yaws, malaria, smallpox, guinea...

The global eradication of measles is desirable because the disease occurs almost universally, affects large numbers of children, can cause serious complications, and is responsible for about 900 000 deaths a year in developing countries. The feasibility of a measles eradication programme is suggested by the success of smallpox eradication, the availibility of a heat-stable, cheap, and effective...

Accelerated disease control initiatives, such as polio eradication by the year 2000, may substantially benefit public health programs in general. In Egypt, the control of other vaccine-preventable diseases, most noticeably neonatal tetanus (NT), has been facilitated by the polio eradication initiative. Linking NT reporting with the acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance system, which had be...

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Helicobacter pylori is a human pathogen and can lead to chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer disease, gastric adenocarcinoma and mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma. H. pylori infection is associated with gastric cancer and has been categorized as a group I carcinogen in gastric cancer. In 2016, Maastricht V/Florence Consensus report emphasized H. pylori infection as an infectious disease and...