“Eradication represents a complete change of philosophy and a recognition of the equal rights of all citizens to protection from infection, no matter where they live. Eradication, by its very nature, is public health with a conscience. The public health control officer can sleep tranquilly, salving his conscience with the thought that most of his responsibility has been discharged – that he did not have enough money to do any more. The eradicator knows that his success is not measured by what has been accomplished but, rather, is the extent of his failure indicated by what remains to be done. He must stamp out the last embers of infection in his jurisdiction. His slogan must be: ANY IS TOO MANY.” SuccessLeadershipHealthFailureMoralityConsciencePerfectionMedicineProtectionAccomplishmentEqual RightsQuality Of LifeGoal SettingCompletionPublic HealthInfectionMalariaDisease ControlMalaria EradicationEradicationYellow Fever Eradication Book:Building the Health Bridge: Selections from the Works of Fred L. Soper Source: Building the Health Bridge: Selections from the Works of Fred L. Soper
“Recognizing its importance, Aedes aegypti should be studied as a long-term national, regional, and world problem rather than as a temporary local threat to the communities suffering at any given moment from yellow fever, dengue or other aegypti-borne disease. No one can foresee the extent of the future threat of Aedes aegypti to mankind as a vector of known virus diseases, and none can foretell what other virus diseases may yet affect regions where A. aegypti is permitted to remain.” Public HealthMosquitoesDisease ControlYellow FeverEradicationYellow Fever EradicationAedes AegyptiMosquito EradicationChikungunyaDengueZikaFred Lowe Soper Book:Building the Health Bridge: Selections from the Works of Fred L. Soper Source: Building the Health Bridge: Selections from the Works of Fred L. Soper
“The use of vaccine in the control of yellow fever should occupy more or less the same place that typhoid fever vaccine has in the control of typhoid fever. No sanitary authority would desire to substitute typhoid vaccine for the supply of pure water and food, so we must not accept the yellow fever vaccine as a substitute for the elimination of Aedes aegypti. The vaccine provides individual protection for the person who cannot be protected by more general measures.” DiseaseVaccinesEpidemicsPublic HealthMosquitoesVaccinationYellow FeverMalaria EradicationEradicationTyphoidYellow Fever EradicationAedes AegyptiMosquito EradicationEndemic Author:Fred Lowe Soper