Principles and Practice of Disease Eradication

The Balmis Expedition from Spain to the New World in 1806, launched off the heels of Jenner''s publication on vaccinia vaccine a few years previously, was likely the world''s first eradication initiative. The mission was to eradicate the deadly smallpox from the Americas and beyond. That goal, over a century and half later conceptualized and implemented under the guidance of the World Health Organ...