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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