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Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Disease Eradication
Population Characteristics > Health > Public Health > Disease Eradication

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Disease Eradication  

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Definition

  • Termination of all transmission of infection by global extermination of the infectious agent through surveillance and containment (From Porta, A Dictionary of Epidemiology, 5th ed).

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