It became the second disease to be eradicated, 30 years after smallpox eradication.
A year earlier, officials said they had eradicated 6.7 million plants.
With American support, the government claims to have eradicated 64,000 hectares (158,00 acres) of coca so far this year.
Though it was eradicated 20 years ago, many experts say they believe that rogue nations, including Iraq, continue to maintain illicit stocks of the smallpox virus.
Through aerial spraying, they add, Colombian and American teams have eradicated 62,000 acres of drug crops in the southern province of Putumayo.
It was thought that the disease had been eradicated 15 years ago, but it has now spread to 14 states and infected over 100 people.
Between 1997 and 2001, its government eradicated 40,000 hectares of coca in the Chapare, the main growing area; aid money trickled in for alternatives, such as bananas.
Far from being eradicated, H5N1 viruses have had an unprecedented geographic spread, not typical of HPAIVs, spreading from Southeast Asia into the Middle East, Europe, and Africa.
They describe and estimate the economic burden of a specific disease to a society, and therefore the savings that could be done if the disease were to be eradicated [2].
HSVtk gene-transduced Muse cells (Muse-tk cells) at a cell number of only 1/32 that of U87 human glioma cells completely eradicated U87 gliomas in nude mouse brains, showing a robust in vivo bystander effect.
In total, the raids eradicated 55,000 plants.
