Eradication of disease

Infection eradication is a state of global eradication of a pathogenic agent with subsequent worldwide disappearance of the relevant infectious disease.
 * Eradication conditions:
 * exclusively human disease,
 * must not have a reservoir in nature,
 * there must be effective vaccination against this disease.


 * Examples of worldwide eradicated infectious diseases:
 * so far the only infectious disease that has been eradicated is  smallpox (26.10.1979),
 * poliomyelitis, was almost eradicated, but due to political instability in the Middle East, the infection has re-spread, especially in Syria.

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