Eradication of infectious diseases - Wikipedia In 1980, the World Health Organization announced the global eradication of smallpox It is the only human disease to be eradicated worldwide The eradication of infectious diseases is the reduction of the prevalence of an infectious disease in the global host population to zero [1]
Eradication of Diseases - Our World in Data Eradication means that intervention measures are no longer required, and the agent that previously caused the disease is no longer present In contrast, the elimination of a disease is when deliberate effort leads to local infections being reduced to zero within a defined geographic area