11.   Eradicating the disease in the Americas will require increased efforts at both vaccination and surveillance, according to an editorial that accompanied the CDC report.

12.   Far from having a cure, scientists say they are afraid that current efforts to eradicate the disease may be doing more harm than good.

13.   Frightful diseases have been eradicated.

14.   Health care workers hope to eradicate the disease within a matter of years, thereby saving countries throughout the world hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

15.   If an outbreak occurs, the CDC says it will respond with the technique known as ring vaccination, which was used to eradicate the disease.

16.   In many parts of the world, the disease has been eradicated through mass immunization, particularly of small children, who are the most susceptible.

17.   Swamplands around the canal were drained, and the disease was eradicated from the area -- and later, from much of the world.

18.   The commissioner said he will report on a monthly basis on progress to eradicate the disease in the U.K. until there was sufficient evidence to lift the ban.

19.   The effect of eradicating the disease, one of the most easily spread in the world, would sweep society in ways most Americans have not imagined.

20.   The most important question is whether cryosurgery is as effective in eradicating the disease as the two standard options.