Polio should have been gone by now — the crippling disease is fully preventable with a few drops of inexpensive oral vaccine — and public health experts expected it to have been wiped out a dozen years ago.
Though the disease causes irreversible blindness, it is fully preventable and treatable with antibiotics or, in more severe cases, surgery performed under local anesthetic.
He adds, "In space and on Earth these conditions are fully preventable with proper respiratory protection including engineering controls".
However, unlike other zoonoses in the DALY ranking system, human rabies is fully preventable by disease control aimed at the animal reservoir.
For Indigenous populations, poor access to culturally appropriate primary health services is believed to have contributed to poor outcomes for a wide range of chronic diseases, many of which are fully preventable [ 2– 5].
However, during the path towards a zero rate, we should not overlook that although the healthcare-associated infection concept makes epidemiological sense, the pathophysiology of the different clinical syndromes is variable, as is their potential to be fully preventable.
With the encouraging results from the Austrian Breast Cancer Group, revealing that zoledronic acid may completely prevent aggravated bone loss, even among premenopausal women exposed to ovarian ablation and anastrozole in concert (Gnant et al. 2008), detrimental effects on bone metabolism may be fully preventable.
If you've lucky enough to catch it in its earliest stage, hepatitis B is fully preventable.
"H.I.V. is fully treatable and preventable," said Dr. Julio Montaner, president of the International AIDS Society and head of the division of AIDS at the University of British Columbia.
Introduction Despite being a fully preventable infectious disease, tetanus is still responsible for about 500,000 death worldwide.
