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Eradicating versus controlling a disease: schematic comparison of the costs

Controlling the disease can have lower costs in the short term, but the cumulative costs can quickly overtake those of eradication. (Source: Roser M, Ochmann S, Behrens H, Ritchie H, Dabonaite B. Eradication of diseases: which diseases could we eradicate in our lifetimes and how? First published in June 2014 and last revised in January 2024. Available at: ourworldindata.org/eradication-of-diseases. Accessed May 2024. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International [CC BY 4.0] license, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 by Max Roser.)

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