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ISSUES TO CONSIDER: VACCINATION STRATEGIES: RING VS. MASS VACCINATION
Ring Vaccination (targeted vaccination) is a strategy in which only direct contacts (friends, family members, and
coworkers) of confirmed smallpox victims are identified and vaccinated.
Mass Vaccination is a strategy in which all persons in an area (city, region, or entire country) are vaccinated,
whether exposed to the smallpox virus or not.
Issues: Vaccination Strategies: Ring vs. Mass Vaccination, received 9:25 a.m.
Atlantic Storm was a tabletop exercise convened on January 14, 2005 by the Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), the Center for
Transatlantic Relations of the Johns Hopkins University, and the Transatlantic Biosecurity Network. © 2005 UPMC. All rights reserved.