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Difference between eradication disease and elimination

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Control, eliminate, eradicate: A thesaurus might tell you the words are similar, the last two even interchangeable. But as the American Museum of Natural History's newly opened exhibition Countdown to Zero: Defeating Disease makes clear, when it comes to fighting disease the difference can be as stark as life and death.

Photographs and wall texts dramatize the debilitating impact that Guinea worm, river blindness and malaria, among other diseases, can leave not just on individuals but the entire life of a village when a significant percentage of its population becomes infected. These excruciating ailments may "no longer exist in the developed world," said President Jimmy Carter, who spoke at the launch of the exhibit, which was organized in conjunction with the Carter Center. "But they affect hundreds of millions of people in the poorest nations on earth."

As the exhibition's title suggests, reaching zero — eradication — is the end goal for fighting disease: no infections, with no possibility of further transmission, anywhere in the world. To date, only one human disease has been wiped out: smallpox.

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