During a routine health checkup, a gastroscopy revealed gastritis and Helicobacter pylori bacteria. The doctor recommends eradication therapy. The treatment involves taking two antibiotics and a ...

Black rats were believed to have been completely eliminated from Lord Howe Island, only for researchers to rediscover them in 2021. Through genetic analysis, they traced the rats back to the island’s ...

The number of human cases of Guinea worm disease halved in 2021 to a record low of 14, putting the goal of global eradication in sight, the US-based Carter Center has announced. The parasitic disease ...

The latest goal for the end of polio transmission will almost certainly not be met, according to a frank and concerning report about the future of the decades-long polio eradication effort that was ...

In an effort to protect grasslands, a plan to cull pikas and zokors in China is having the opposite effect, say scientists. Now, a new paper reveals another example of the eradication of a keystone ...

This seventh installment in our series on U.S. support for global polio eradication explores how ongoing research has allowed the eradication program to learn and adapt in real time, overcoming new ...