51.   Carter replied that a ceasefire would be a good opportunity to ease suffering in the south and to resume relief operations besides eradicating the diseases.

52.   Deve Gowda told officials the campaign should not end until the disease was eradicated from the face of the earth.

53.   To eradicate the disease the programme will use antibiotics as well as raise awareness of how it can be prevented.

54.   Vice President K.R. Narayanan urged a nationwide cleanliness drive to eradicate communicable diseases triggered by filth and decay.

55.   Polio outbreaks in parts of the former Soviet Union and Turkey are hindering international efforts to eradicate the disease, US officials said Thursday.

56.   Several ministers wondered aloud why Britain had taken so long to eradicate a disease that it first became aware of a decade ago.

57.   That is likely to anger the Germans who complained Monday that Britain had tried to block EU aid to help Germany eradicate swine disease a few years ago.