"Eradication campaigns" refers to organized efforts to completely eliminate or get rid of something harmful or unwanted, such as a disease, a pest, or a problem.
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Despite the success
of eradication campaigns on geographically isolated islands, logistic barriers and opposition from residents would make the application of lethal strategies in populated mainland areas unfeasible.
When it comes to planning such
eradication campaigns on limited budgets, Cassey says, «analyses like [Hanna's], which can assist in prioritization, are going to be really important.»
Despite a massive Anopheles mosquito -
eradication campaign in the 1970s, malaria remained Belize's top health problem in the 1980s.
In
TB eradication campaigns, the overreporting of people's cooperation with medical advice is measurable (chemical tests show whether patients have taken their pills or not) and quite high.
The outbreak in West Africa threatens the momentum of the
polio eradication campaign, which cut the number of new polio cases worldwide from an estimated 350,000 in 1988 to only 784 in 2003 and wiped out the disease in the Americas, the Western Pacific region, and Europe.
The two animals are infamous for killing off the continent's native species, and they've been the targets of numerous government -
backed eradication campaigns.
It continued to afflict Asia and Africa in the second half of the 20th century, re-emerging when
several eradication campaigns were shut down in the mistaken belief that the virus had been wiped out.
Pratchaya Phinthong
Tsetse Eradication Campaign 2012 Video (PAL) Duration 23:50 minutes Dimensions: 21 x 27 x 21 inches (53.3 x 68.6 x 53.3 cm)
It is very hard to maintain the political commitment and energy required for
an eradication campaign when the disease appears to have disappeared.
Speaking at a recent press conference, Carter lauded the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for pledging $ 40 million to carry out the final stages of
the eradication campaign.