The recognised role of H. pylori as a carcinogen makes eradication of H. pylori infection the preferred strategy for the prevention of gastric cancer.
The hospital environment (i.e. bed rails, mattresses, medical equipment, colonised or infected patients and the hands of healthcare workers) is an ecological niche for A. baumannii and resistance to desiccation, disinfections and antimicrobials makes eradication of this pathogen difficult [ 33].
Worldwide, polio is close to being completely eradicated, but one final push is necessary to make eradication a reality.
Ministers here, unlike those in France and Holland, believe that vaccination can mask infections within flocks, thereby making eradication almost impossible.
Ban Ki-moon, the secretary-general of the United Nations, said he would enlist agencies of the United Nations to make eradication a top priority this year.
Ground spraying would likely bring only a modest improvement over the manual destruction of poppy plants, but officials who support the strategy hope it would reassure Afghans about the safety of the herbicide and make eradication possible.
Dr. Jong Wook Lee, who became director general of the health organization last July and who once ran its polio surveillance and immunization program, has made eradication a top priority.
He says that, despite scientific advances, the increased mobility of people and chaos in places like Sudan and Somalia, where no one can be sure of the status of any disease, make eradication harder today.
They think that today's money, technologies and political will are strong enough to make eradication a realistic aspiration.Dr Phillips is right, in the sense that even the finest vaccine cannot do much good if it does not reach villages in endemic areas.
Squirrel abundance and residents' attitude towards this introduced species in the main invasion focus make eradication unfeasible, though management actions such as control, containment and mitigation of damages should be undertaken.
The high frequency of HHV-8 viremia in epidemic KS may also be a factor in sustaining and seeding areas of established KS [29], making eradication and therapy more difficult.
