Bovine Tuberculosis (bTB) in cattle is a global health problem and eradication of the disease requires accurate estimates of diagnostic test performance to optimize their efficiency.
Overpopulation became a serious problem after the eradication of falciparum malaria by the early 1950s led to a sharp increase in population.
Youngers told me that one of the problems with forced eradication of coca crops is that poor farmers are deprived of their main source of income, meaning they quickly replant the coca plants, creating a one step forward, two steps back situation.
If the decades-long failure of Washington's so-called "war on drugs" has proven anything, it's that drug trafficking is overwhelmingly a demand-side problem (pdf), and eradication of one source of raw materials leads to geographical shifts in production.
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a global health problem despite near eradication in some developed countries [ 1- 4].
The lack of proven, safe, and acceptable options of eradication of nasal colonization in horses creates potential management problems.
Lack of eradication of disseminated breast cancer by chemotherapy is a central clinical problem.
However, CAM resistance is an increasing problem for the first-line therapy of H. pylori infection, since the major cause of eradication failure is thought to be the existence of CAM resistant H. pylori [ 72, 74– 74].
Along with improvements in vector control, surveillance/diagnosis and treatment accessibility, the development of new drugs to counteract the problem of drug resistance remains integral to the eradication agenda.
It's much better to nip them in the bud – getting on top of the problem now – before eradication at many sites in the wild becomes difficult and prohibitively expensive".
It smacks of eradication, like "smoke free" or "pesticide free".
