Control and Eradication of Human and Animal Diseases by Vaccination

Nigel Bourne; Gregg N. Milligan

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Control and Eradication of Human and Animal Diseases by Vaccination

Nigel Bourne, Gregg N. Milligan

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For pathogens that infect only a single or a limited number of host species and for which effective vaccines are available, it is theoretically possible to eradicate the pathogen through immunization. The implementation of vigorous immunization programs in the 1960s and 1970s resulted in the eradication of the human pathogen smallpox virus in 1980. More recently, the veterinary pathogen rinderpest virus has also been eradicated as a result of intensive immunization and surveillance programs. This chapter outlines the characteristics of the pathogens that can be targeted for eradication and the strategies employed in the immunization programs responsible for successful eradication efforts. It also examines the difficulties encountered and new strategies for similar vaccination programs to eradicate other human and livestock pathogens.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Vaccinology
Subtitle of host publication	An Essential Guide
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell
Pages	43-58
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	9781118638033
ISBN (Print)	9780470656167
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118638033.ch3
State	Published - Dec 9 2014

Keywords

Control
Eradication
Foot-and-mouth disease
Herd immunity
Measles
Polio
Rinderpest virus
Smallpox

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General Medicine

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