Isolation
Strategies to Contain an Outbreak
Eradication
Strategy of the 1970’s
During the eradication
program conducted in the 1970s, vaccination campaigns focused primarily
on the vaccination of close contacts of smallpox cases. Occasionally,
depending on the makeup of the area, broader campaigns were undertaken
in order to help break a chain of transmission. But this was also
a time in which vaccine was readily available; giving options to
public health planners that we might not have today.
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