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Eradication of Infectious Diseases: A Critical Study (Contributions to Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Vol 2)

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Like many malariologists, Prof. Yekutiel takes a skeptical view of global eradication programmes. However, events are showing that, at least for polio, his scientific skepticism is poorly justified.

His account of the origins of the global malaria campaign is invaluable to students of infectious disease epidemiology and control. So, too, is his list of the prerequisites for infectious disease eradication. But he overestimates the technical obstacles to disease eradication for polio and measles, both of which have been cleared from countries and continents, with polio almost eradicated and measles just around the corner.

With that much said, his typology of criteria is still useful, and his book is still quoted in symposia on disease eradication, like that recently published in the Bulletin of the WHO.