Guide To Almost Eradicated And Entirely Eradicated Infectious Diseases

The eradication of infectious diseases is a goal for many medical researchers. To determine whether a particular disease could potentially be eradicated, scientists note the disease must meet certain criteria. First, the disease needs to be easy to diagnose, and it must not have an animal host since these hosts would need to become extinct for the disease to be successfully eradicated. In addition, the disease cannot lie dormant within a patient for many years, and it needs to follow a cyclic pattern of rise and decline that creates natural immunity in individuals who have survived the disease.