Disease Eradication

Miami battling invasion of giant African snails

10 Feb 2012

No one knows how they got there. But an invasion of African giant snails has southern Florida in a panic over potential crop damage, disease and general yuckiness surrounding the slimy gastropods.

Local Rotary Clubs helping to eradicate polio in India

9 Feb 2012

Local Rotarians in District 7430, which includes clubs in Berks County, along with Rotary members worldwide, are cautiously celebrating major milestones in the global effort to eradicate the crippling disease of polio: India has gone a full calendar year without recording a new case.

India's ownership over polio eradication program contributed to success

9 Feb 2012

"The key to India's success" in going a full year without recording a case of polio "was to take ownership of the problem and the solution, allowing for locals to learn from the expertise of the international community while not becoming dependent" on non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and international donors, William Thomson, a research assistant at the U.S. Naval War College, writes in The ...