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Eradication of infectious diseases in India refers to all efforts to eliminate particular infectious diseases in India. Since infectious diseases start from a source, by eliminating the source, the disease could be gone from the country.

Smallpox

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There was global celebration of India's eradication of smallpox.

The World Health Organization created archival records of the smallpox eradication effort worldwide, including India's contributions, as a historic record of how people can collaborate to eliminate diseases.

Various books tell the story of smallpox eradication.

Yaws
In 1996, India began an initiative to eradicate yaws in 1996. The eradication program organized medical workers to visit most individual houses in 51 districts of 10 different states. When they identified active cases of yaws, they arranged to provide long-term antibiotic treatment. In 2004, India was free of yaws.

Rinderpest

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Polio
The eradication of smallpox has been a model for eradicating polio.