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Infectious diseases with eradication efforts

  • MeaslesIn 1954, a 13-year-old boy named David Edmonston sat in a hospital bed in the United States. His blood contained the measles virus that scientists would soon…
  • MalariaIn 1894, a Scottish physician named Ronald Ross visited Sir Patrick Manson at his home on Queen Anne Street in London. This meeting began four years of…
  • SyphilisTreponema pallidum subspecies pallidum is a spiral-shaped, Gram-negative bacterium that cannot survive more than a few days outside a human host.