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<title>Our World in Data - Eradication of Diseases</title>
<subtitle>Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems</subtitle>
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<updated>2024-08-19T05:00:00.000Z</updated>
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    <title>Many people alive today still recall when smallpox was common</title>
    <id>https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/many-people-alive-today-still-recall-when-smallpox-was-common</id>
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    <published>2024-08-19T05:00:00.000Z</published>
    <author><name>Saloni Dattani</name></author>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<br/><br/><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/many-people-alive-today-still-recall-when-smallpox-was-common"><img src="https://ourworldindata.org/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/qLq-8BTgXU8yG0N6HnOy8g/58c41581-aad5-4e39-2944-6c87e9de5200/w=608"/></a>]]></summary>
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    <title>Through sustained effort, we are close to eradicating guinea worm disease</title>
    <id>https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/through-sustained-effort-we-are-close-to-eradicating-guinea-worm-disease</id>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/through-sustained-effort-we-are-close-to-eradicating-guinea-worm-disease"/>
    <published>2024-07-25T05:00:00.000Z</published>
    <author><name>Tuna Acisu</name></author>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<br/><br/><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/through-sustained-effort-we-are-close-to-eradicating-guinea-worm-disease"><img src="https://ourworldindata.org/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/qLq-8BTgXU8yG0N6HnOy8g/6346ddd5-ae66-45ad-c158-550348acd800/w=608"/></a>]]></summary>
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    <title>Guinea worm disease is close to being eradicated – how was this progress achieved?</title>
    <id>https://ourworldindata.org/guinea-worm-path-eradication</id>
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    <published>2022-07-07T09:00:00.000Z</published>
    <author><name>Saloni Dattani</name></author><author><name>Fiona Spooner</name></author>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[In the late 1980s, there were near a million new cases of guinea worm disease recorded worldwide. In 2021, there were only 15. How was this achieved?<br/><br/><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/guinea-worm-path-eradication"><img src="https://ourworldindata.org/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/qLq-8BTgXU8yG0N6HnOy8g/1786200a-74e4-4dd1-2555-e8bcb0bb5d00/w=512"/></a>]]></summary>
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    <title>Eradication of Diseases</title>
    <id>https://ourworldindata.org/eradication-of-diseases</id>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://ourworldindata.org/eradication-of-diseases"/>
    <published>2018-10-01T15:01:00.000Z</published>
    <author><name>Max Roser</name></author><author><name>Sophie Ochmann</name></author><author><name>Hannah Behrens</name></author><author><name>Hannah Ritchie</name></author><author><name>Bernadeta Dadonaite</name></author>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Which ones could we eradicate in our lifetimes and how?<br/><br/><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/eradication-of-diseases"><img src="https://ourworldindata.org/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/qLq-8BTgXU8yG0N6HnOy8g/c0751522-07d5-4bbd-f316-ff0d22900200/w=512"/></a>]]></summary>
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    <title>How rinderpest was eradicated</title>
    <id>https://ourworldindata.org/how-rinderpest-was-eradicated</id>
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    <published>2018-09-30T11:05:00.000Z</published>
    <author><name>Sophie Ochmann</name></author><author><name>Hannah Behrens</name></author>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Rinderpest was a disease that primarily infected cattle and buffalo. Thanks to a decades-long international campaign, it was the first animal disease to be eradicated.<br/><br/><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/how-rinderpest-was-eradicated"><img src="https://ourworldindata.org/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/qLq-8BTgXU8yG0N6HnOy8g/086600bb-15b5-471d-fc3d-fb8190ebc000/w=512"/></a>]]></summary>
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    <title>Reduction of cases and deaths of vaccine-preventable diseases in the US</title>
    <id>https://ourworldindata.org/reduction-of-cases-and-deaths-of-vaccine-preventable-diseases-in-the-us</id>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://ourworldindata.org/reduction-of-cases-and-deaths-of-vaccine-preventable-diseases-in-the-us"/>
    <published>2015-03-19T14:38:33.000Z</published>
    <author><name>Max Roser</name></author>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Vaccines dramatically cut the rates of vaccine-preventable diseases in the US<br/><br/><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/reduction-of-cases-and-deaths-of-vaccine-preventable-diseases-in-the-us"><img src="https://ourworldindata.org/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/qLq-8BTgXU8yG0N6HnOy8g/8fa44c06-cc78-4eba-482f-632e9940c700/w=512"/></a>]]></summary>
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