Can Ring Vaccination Contain Monkeypox in the US? - WIRED

The strategy, which involves inoculating an infected person’s closest contacts, helped beat smallpox. But it requires good contact tracing and enough vaccines.

Ring vaccination worked for smallpox because a person-to-person pattern of spread makes it possible to predict and interrupt chains of transmission. The process is straightforward: Find the people mo… [+3175 chars]

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