eradication
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Resuming his polio project after the war, he concluded by the early 1950s that eradication would only be achieved if transmission could be prevented through halting viral replication in the gastrointestinal tract.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
He referred to a 10-point plan that Caribbean nations have put to European nations, including international debt cancellation, as well as support for healthcare and illiteracy eradication.
From Barron's ● May 28, 2026
Calling the eradication of extortion “one of the great challenges” facing Mexico, Sheinbaum pledged to bolster enforcement, stiffen penalties and increase safeguards for anyone receiving threats.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2025
The deal targets the prevention and treatment of HIV/Aids, malaria, and tuberculosis, maternal care, polio eradication and infectious disease outbreak response and preparedness.
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2025
One was the fire ant eradication program in the South; the other was the spraying for the Japanese beetle in the Midwest.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
There have been successful local disease eradications, but they often came at a price.
From Nature ● Oct. 14, 2019
If eradications in general are hard, eradications on inhabited islands are really hard.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 1, 2017
Campbell has been working on eradications in the Galápagos since 1997, including a 2006 campaign to remove all the feral goats and donkeys from Floreana.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 1, 2017
Such eradications require almost military-scale logistics and precision, which is why Campbell has been desperately seeking an alternative to the blunt-force tools of current techniques.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 1, 2017
History proves that persecution never triumphs in its attempted eradications.
From Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by E. R. Billings
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President Obama's Speech on the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington
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"Ideas Live On" by Benazir Bhutto (2007)
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