Big things are easier to eradicate, especially if they are slow, unaccustomed to being prey, and nutritious. Eradicating a bacterium with wild animal reservoir

Big things are easier to eradicate, especially if they are slow, unaccustomed to being prey, and nutritious. Eradicating a bacterium with wild animal reservoir populations (deer, white-footed mice, black-legged ticks, all of which are endemic species) is ... a much harder problem.