Sentences with phrase «disease eradication efforts»

Some weightier recommendations are sure to make you smarter and better informed, but will that tome on disease eradication efforts or memoir of a dying doctor bring a smile to your lips?

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We asked the Carter Center's Guinea worm disease expert Kelly Callahan, who has been involved in eradication efforts for 12 years.

The disease, treatable with a one - time dose of penicillin or, as part of the renewed eradication effort, the antibiotic azithromycin, has experienced a significant resurgence in the past two decades.

After giant global efforts to halt the so - called red plague throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the Global Commission for Certification of Smallpox Eradication reported that the disease had been eradicated Dec. 9, 1979.