The eradication of infectious diseases is the reduction of the prevalence of an infectious disease in the global host population to zero.

Polio eradication, the goal of permanent global cessation of circulation of the poliovirus and hence elimination of the poliomyelitis (polio) it causes, is the aim of a multinational public health effort begun in 1988, led by the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children's Fund and the Rotary Foundation.

a standard name for all treatment protocols for peptic ulcers and gastritis in the presence of Helicobacter pylori infection.