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The successes and failures of disease eradication and control are well known; rather than highlight them, it is more instructive to consider the implications of these experiences. I will focus on six lessons that I think require examination, and then suggest steps that we might take.
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Foege, W. (2000). Surveillance, Eradication and Control: Successes and Failures. In: Whitman, J. (eds) The Politics of Emerging and Resurgent Infectious Diseases. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230629301_12
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