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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

LANE, John Michael (1936 – 2020)

1936 – 2020

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1971 CE

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Selective epidemiologic control in smallpox eradication.

FOEGE, William Herbert (1936 – )
FOEGE, William Herbert (1936 – ) MILLAR, John Donald (1934 – 2015) LANE, John Michael (1936 – 2020)

Foege showed that "ring containment", selective vaccination of those at greatest risk, in closest proximity to an outbreak, was more effective in eradicating smallpox than mass vaccination.