Sentences with phrase «year eradication effort»
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced on 14 October in Rome that a 16 - year eradication effort has succeeded and fieldwork has ended.
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It still kills some 600,000 people each year and has outwitted eradication efforts, having developed resistance to previously popular drugs and, thus far, eluded vaccine - induced immunity.
Yet when Jennifer Lavers, a marine biologist at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies in Tasmania, ventured there two years ago to study invasive rodent - eradication efforts, she found the once pristine UNESCO World Heritage Site inundated with trash — 17.6 metric tons of it, she conservatively estimates — pretty much all of it plastic.
After cases skyrocketed in 2011, the country stepped up its eradication efforts, and there have been just 56 cases so far this year, down from 173 this time last year.
We asked the Carter Center's Guinea worm disease expert Kelly Callahan, who has been involved in eradication efforts for 12 years.
In the works for about five years, the rat eradication plan is one of many coastal restoration efforts funded by a $ 9.1 - million settlement with BP America stemming from the 1990 American Trader oil spill off Huntington Beach.