eradicable

Many of us believe that the disease is essentially eradicable.

And condemn him to live out that eradicable truth for as long as he had left.

"Unlike almost any other public health threat, the problem of lead paint is eradicable, not just controllable."

Read on to discover more about these efforts and learn about the top 10 eradicable diseases.

Hanoi once described drug addiction as an eradicable evil.

It's an ideology - you know like socialism or feminism, not an eradicable disease like smallpox.

Polio is one of the few infectious diseases that meets the stringent qualifications to be potentially eradicable.

In the development discourse, the basic needs model focuses on the measurement of what is believed to be an eradicable level of poverty.

Top 10 Eradicable Diseases There are few loftier goals than eradicating a disease.

Over centuries of progress medical science has developed a variety of therapeutic practices that have made many illnesses more treatable or even fully eradicable.

Evil existed as mere plot complication, as eradicable as a malarial mosquito.

International Task Force for Disease Eradication in 1992 reported that cysticercosis is potentially eradicable.

"If it isn't eradicable and you just plunge ahead, then you will just lose credibility," Dr. Mason said.

Some researchers are confident that Brugia timori filariasis may be an eradicable disease.

This is because the image-forming coating is eradicable and brittle, and it tends to detach from the medium after a long time in storage.

If systemic discrimination were going on, though, and was not eradicable by persuasion, then "counter-discrimination" would be the only way to deal with the existing effective "positive discrimination".

In 1993, the International Task Force for Disease Eradication declared lymphatic filariaisis to be one of six potentially eradicable diseases.

The group has reviewed more than 100 infectious diseases and identified six as potentially eradicable - dracunculiasis, poliomyelitis, mumps, rubella, lymphatic filariasis, and cysticercosis.

Narcotics addiction, once described by officials here as an eradicable evil left over from the former Saigon regime, appears to be on the rise among the young in both southern and northern Vietnam.

"The general perception is that mosquito-borne diseases ought to be eradicable," said Harold Varmus, director of the National Institutes of Health, "and they have not proven to be so.

The intense focus on Mr. bin Laden, however, may be not only inflating his importance but obscuring the deeper, broader and thus less eradicable roots of radical Islam's assault on the West.

The latter were more concerned with the tangible and apparently more readily eradicable physical conditions which they believed influenced behaviour than with the less tangible effects of infant emotional experience or of inheritance.

Five more infectious diseases have been identified as of April 2008 as potentially eradicable with current technology by the Carter Center International Task Force for Disease Eradication-measles, mumps, rubella, lymphatic filariasis and cysticercosis.

In the 1960's, malaria was considered potentially eradicable: DDT and chloroquine, a synthetic form of quinine, had been invented, and much of the tropics were under colonial rulers who, whatever their other faults, were good at killing mosquitoes.

- because when I asked to start the National Institute on Aging, my perception was that we shouldn't just focus on aging, because aging was not considered a disease and was obviously not something that was immediately eradicable.