The phrase "to defeat the disease" means to conquer or overcome an illness or medical condition. It refers to successfully curing or stopping the spread of the disease, ultimately leading to its eradication or elimination. Full definition
Wherever conflicts or other crises lead to breakdown of sanitation, vaccination, or the health system generally, defeated diseases return. (sciencemag.org)
Her first book, The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease, was published by Viking (U.S. / Canada) and Transworld (U.K.) in February 2017. (sciencemag.org)
Defeating diseases like malaria may depend not only on finding chemicals to kill mosquitoes, but also on understanding how the insects manage to survive them. (sciencemag.org)