Can We Eradicate Measles?

Can we eradicate Cysticercosis?

Man is the only known definitive host of the tapeworm Taenia solium and becomes a carrier by eating undercooked pork contaminated with “Cysticercus cellulosae” (cysticerci). Pigs act as intermediate host and acquire cysticercosis by ingestion of eggs or proglottids from human feces, which develop into cysticerci within tissue mostly without causing clinical symptoms in the host. Cysticercosis o...

What Can We Do About Measles?

Targeting Wnt signaling: can we safely eradicate cancer stem cells?

The Wnt signaling pathways have been conserved throughout evolution and regulate cell proliferation, morphology, motility, and fate during embryonic development. These pathways also play important roles throughout adult life to maintain homeostasis of tissues including skin, blood, intestine, and brain by regulating somatic stem cells and their niches. Aberrant regulation of the Wnt pathway lea...

It’s Often Better to Eradicate, but Can We Eradicate Better?

Invasive species eradications have achieved important conservation gains the world over. Growing numbers of eradications take place, however, in complex and highly altered ecosystems with high risks of unexpected ecological effects. Ecosystems that contain multiple invaders, have lost one or more native species along with their functional roles, or have undergone long-term change to soil and ot...

The Ethical Imperative to Eradicate Measles

Durrheim DN1* and Dahl-Regis M2 1University of Newcastle, Australia and Chair of the Western Pacific Measles Verification Commission, Australia 2Chief Medical Officer, Bahamas and Chair of the Pan-American Measles and Rubella Elimination Independent Expert Committee, Australia *Corresponding author: Durrheim DN, University of Newcastle, Australia and Chair of the Western Pacific Measles Verific...