The principal tool being used is mass ivermectin treatment. Smallpox has now been eradicated and programmes are currently under way to eradicate poliomyelitis and guinea-worm disease. This can effectively be done through sanitary measures and proper inspection and cooking of pork. "going to all the trouble to eradicate it" is sometimes easy when there are only 2 or 3 cubes of a disease on the board - at other times there are so many cubes that it would be a waste of actions to do any more than contain outbreaks. Guinea worm disease cases since 1989 are reported by the Carter Foundation found here. And just to be clear, the only reason I care about infection blocks is that they don't become outbreaks, correct? Smallpox has now been eradicated and programmes are currently under way to eradicate poliomyelitis and guinea-worm disease. p228. The number of reported cases dropped from 670 thousand in the year 2000 to below 15 thousand in 2018, and the global coverage of rubella vaccination was estimated at 69% in 2018 by the WHO. Eradication programmes are attractive to potential funding sources because they establish high standards of performance for surveillance, logistics, and administrative support; develop well-trained and highly motivated health staff; assist in the development of health services infrastructure including, for example, mobilization of endemic communities; and provide equity in coverage for all affected areas, including urban, rural, and even remote rural areas. Measles Death In More Than A Decade, "PAHO WHO: Region of the Americas is declared free of measles", "PAHO WHO: Measles elimination in the Americas", "Anti-vaccine groups blamed in Minnesota measles outbreak", "New York Confronts Its Worst Measles Outbreak in Decades", "NY tackles 'largest measles outbreak' in state's recent history", "Measles Outbreak 2019:: Washington State Department of Health", "Rubella Has Been Eliminated From the Americas, Health Officials Say - The New York Times", "Rubella is Officially Eradicated from Australia", "Eliminating measles and rubella: Framework for the verification process in the WHO European Region", "Report from the Inter-American Conference on Onchocerciasis, November 2007", "African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control report of the sixth meeting of national task forces, October 2009", "Uganda Attempts Nationwide Elimination of River Blindness", "Feasibility of onchocerciasis elimination with ivermectin treatment in endemic foci in Africa: first evidence from studies in Mali and Senegal", "NEWS SCAN: Columbia ousts river blindness; Vaccine-derived polio in India; Danish Salmonella trends", "Number of reported cases worldwide (excluding the United Kingdom): OIE - World Organisation for Animal Health", Number of reported cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in farmed cattle worldwide, "WHO validates elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis in Cuba", "WHO | WHO outlines criteria to assess elimination of sleeping sickness", "Tackling animal diseases to protect human health.