"the rapidly developing field of virus eradication."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-virus-eradication
"The ultimate goal in the fight against diseases is their eradication. In theory, many diseases could be eradicated, in practice, only a handful of diseases meet the criteria that make them eradicable with current knowledge, institutions, and technology."
https://ourworldindata.org/eradication-of-diseases
"Is it possible to completely eradicate a virus? Eradication is not easy to conceptualize and has been variously defined. Meanwhile, the concept of elimination has been dispensed with, only later to be revived again as virologists grapple with the intractability of a working definition for the concept of eradication."
"The eradication of disease has been deemed the “holy grail” for health officials, and better health positively impacts ecosystems across the globe (Corona, 2020)"
"In 1993, the International Task Force for Disease Eradication assessed over 80 potential infectious disease categories, of which they designated just six as eradicable candidates (Dowdle, 1998). The World Health Organisation (WHO) has since then declared only two viruses to have been officially eradicated thus far; variola virus (VARV), which causes smallpox, and rinderpest virus (RPV), which causes rinderpest (also known as cattle plague)."
https://www.news-medical.net/health/Virus-Eradication-Extinction-and-Elimination-Explained.aspx
"The concept of “disease eradication” originated in the late 18th century, when Edward Jenner inoculated James Phipps with the cowpox virus and subsequently infected him with the lethal smallpox virus."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK98114/
"To date, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared only 2 diseases officially eradicated: smallpox caused by variola virus (VARV) and rinderpest caused by the rinderpest virus (RPV)."
https://asm.org/Articles/2020/March/Disease-Eradication-What-Does-It-Take-to-Wipe-out
The Principles of Disease Elimination and Eradication
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/su48a7.htm