What are ways you can have a disease eradicated?
Is it if you get rid of all the cubes or do you have to find a cure first?
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Sign up to join this communityYou must first discover the cure before you can eradicate a disease. Otherwise, some diseases could begin the game eradicated. From the rulebook, page 4:
Treat Disease
If the last cube of a cured disease is removed from the board, this disease is eradicated. Flip its cure marker from its “vial” side to its “0” side.
Discover a Cure
[...]If no cubes of this color are on the board, this disease is now eradicated. Flip its cure marker from its “vial” side to its “0” side.
And:
Removing the last cube of a disease that is not cured has no effect.