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Originally Posted by wehateporn
Small Pox was eradicated by quarantine, the vaccines weren't working and were incredibly dangerous.
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Total utter bullshit.
Ring vaccination: In 1967, a different plan was used. It involved finding people who were exposed to an infected person. The exposed person and those people he or she had been in contact with were then given the vaccine. That is, the smallpox vaccine was given to those people who had been, or could have been, exposed to an infected person. This approach created a "ring" of vaccinated people around the people who were infected with smallpox and stopped the spread of the disease. In the end, it was this strategy of "ring vaccination" that completely got rid of the disease.
http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/smallpox/prep/cdc-prep.asp