The Lancet
Nov 20, 2010  Volume 376 Number 9754  Pages 1711 – 1798
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/current

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Measles eradication: past is prologue
David L Heymann, Paul E Fine, Ulla K Griffiths, Andrew J Hall, Sandra Mounier-Jack

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In 1969, David Morley emphasised the high mortality rates from measles in west Africa and other countries. He predicted an increase in speculation about the possibility of measles eradication, and concluded that eradication programmes were likely to be successful only if built on a foundation of effective child-care services that are available to the whole community.1,2 Speculation about measles eradication has continued, most recently at a WHO meeting on measles in which a concluding statement encouraged a 2020 target for measles eradication.