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This article considers some of the factors that currently pose a challenge to the notion of disease eradication with a focus on the issues of surveillance, prospects for prophylaxis, and the concept of the patient's right to choose.
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email article The "Zero COVID" debate is one of the hottest controversies at the moment, with supporters on the defense, trying to explain exactly what they mean by the term. Most epidemiologists and infectious disease experts strongly believe wiping SARS-CoV-2 from the face of the earth is unlikely -- but that's not what is meant by the concept, argued Deepti Gurdasani, PhD, of Queen Mary University of London, one of its most vocal proponents. "Elimination is not eradication," Gurdasani recently tweeted. "No one is talking about eradication here." During a recent BMJ symposium on "Z...