From: Epidemiological Concepts Regarding Disease Monitoring and Surveillance
Textbooks | Prevention | Eradication |
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[1] (page 250) | Those measures designed to exclude disease from an unaffected population. | The efforts to eliminate selected organisms from a defined area. |
[4] (page 337) | Â | Commonly in veterinary medicine, eradication refers to the regional extinction of an infectious agent. |
[2] (page 295) | Eradication and prevention applies to the highly infectious, monocausal epidemic diseases threatening large areas of the EU, or causing problems for human beings, the zoonoses or foodborne infections. |