Eradication of schistosomiasis japonica in Yamanashi Prefecture was officially declared in 1996, and all surveillance and health campaign were finished by the end of 2001. Schistosomiasis control had been carried out by strong collaboration among local Government, local people and academia, thought which knowledge and experiences of the disease control were accumulated among the local people. I...

Interview with Randall Packard, William H. Welch Professor of the History of Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University and co-editor of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine. Speaking about his academic career, his activities as an editor, and his main works, Professor Packard addresses the topics of health and disease in the history of Africa; the relation between disease eradication programs...

Disease environment and demographic change plays a critical role in determining the size quality of human capital that drives growth path an economy. While broad patterns transition are understood there is mixed evidence on disease eradication expediting change. Using massive malaria program India during 1950's as natural experiment, we examine effect infant mortality fertility response at hous...

BACKGROUND Infection with Helicobacter pylori is associated with severe digestive diseases including chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer disease, and gastric cancer. Successful eradication of this common gastric pathogen in individual patients is known to prevent the occurrence of peptic ulcer disease and gastric cancer. DISCUSSION With half of the world's population being infected with H, pylori...

This report summarizes the conclusions of the International Task Force for Disease Eradication (ITFDE), a group of scientists who were convened by a secretariat at the Carter Center of Emory University six times during 1989-1992. The purpose of the ITFDE was to establish criteria and apply them systematically to evaluate the potential eradicability of other diseases in the aftermath of the Smal...

The pathogenesis, incidence, complication rates, response to acid suppression and Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) eradication therapy in peptic ulcer associated with chronic disease such as liver cirrhosis, chronic renal failure, diabetes mellitus, and critically ill conditions are different from those with general population, so that the management strategies also should be differentiated. The...

organisations, and communicated with officials involved in the eradication efforts. Results Some of the major lessons we identified for successful eradication efforts in this country were: < Having a clear goal of achieving eradication. < The disease/vector ecology and the points of intervention. < Having effective tools available to achieve eradication < Multidisciplinary funding from, and col...

BACKGROUND Buruli ulcer (BU) is a neglected tropical disease affecting the skin, tissues and in some cases the bones, caused by the environmental pathogen Mycobacterium ulcerans (M. ulcerans). Its mode of transmission is still elusive. Delayed treatment may cause irreversible disabilities with consequent social and economic impacts on the victim. Socio-cultural beliefs, practices and attitudes ...

Ireland ran a conventional test and slaughter Bovine Tuberculosis eradication programme from 1954 until 1988. This programme fulfilled our trading requirements but failed to eradicate TB. At this point a major initiative, ERAD, was launched targeted with reducing the disease levels by half within a four-year period and devising the strategy and supports necessary to achieve final eradication. T...

Abstract Two recent initiatives, the World Health Organization (WHO) Strategic Advisory Group on Malaria Eradication and Lancet Commission Eradication, have assessed feasibility of achieving global malaria eradication proposed strategies to achieve it. Both reports rely a climate-driven model transmission conclude that long-term trends in climate will assist efforts overall and, consequently, n...