eradication

Examples of eradication in the following topics:

• Vaccination

  • Vaccination is a proven way to prevent and even eradicate widespread outbreaks of life-threatening infectious diseases.
  • Certain infectious diseases, such as Smallpox, have been completely eradicated.

• Spermicides

  • Spermicide is a contraceptive substance that eradicates sperm and is inserted vaginally prior to intercourse to prevent pregnancy.
  • Spermicide is a contraceptive substance that eradicates sperm and is inserted vaginally prior to intercourse to prevent pregnancy.

• Development of New Vaccines

  • The implementation of large-scale, comprehensive national immunization programs, and the considerable successes that were achieved in the eradication of smallpox and the reduction of polio, measles, pertussis, tetanus, and meningitis, were among the most notable achievements of the 20th century.
  • Describe how new vaccines are being developed to help eradicate several infectious global diseases

• Biofilms, Persisters, and Antibiotic Tolerance

  • It is being widely recognized that bacterial biofilms are responsible for several chronic diseases that are difficult to treat, hence hard to eradicate (e.g., cystitis, endocarditis, urinary tract infections, gingivitis, dental plaque, and other yet to be identified conditions).
  • Elimination of persisters remains an obstacle for the eradication of some tenacious and highly recurrent bacterial infections.

• Biofilms and Disease

  • Once an infection by a biofilm is established, it is very difficult to eradicate because biofilms tend to be resistant to most of the methods used to control microbial growth, including antibiotics.
  • An antibiotic dose that large would harm the patient; therefore, scientists are working on new ways to eradicate biofilms.

• Double-Stranded DNA Viruses: Pox Viruses

  • The prototype of the poxvirus family is vaccinia virus, which has been used as a successful vaccine to eradicate smallpox virus.
  • After vaccination campaigns throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the World Health Organization (WHO) certified the eradication of smallpox in 1979.
  • Smallpox is one of two infectious diseases to have been eradicated, the other being rinderpest, which was declared eradicated in 2011.

• Diphtheria

  • Historically quite common, diphtheria has largely been eradicated in industrialized nations through widespread vaccination.
  • Boosters of the vaccine are recommended for adults, since the benefits of the vaccine decrease with age without constant re-exposure; they are particularly recommended for those traveling to areas where the disease has not been eradicated.

• Painting

  • Postmodern painting rejects modernism's grand narratives of artistic direction and eradicates the boundaries between high and low forms of art.
  • One compact definition is that postmodernism rejects modernism's grand narratives of artistic direction, eradicating the boundaries between high and low forms of art, and disrupting genre's conventions with collision, collage, and fragmentation.

• Hooverville

  • When the economy began a boom in 1940, unemployment fell and shanty eradication programs destroyed the nation's Hoovervilles.

• How Businesses Benefit from Diversity

  • These unique and varying standpoints help eradicate groupthink which can develop within a homogenous group.