Case Isolation and Contact Tracing Can Prevent the Spread of Smallpox
Case Isolation and Contact Tracing Can Prevent the Spread of Smallpox is a scholarly work, published in 2003 in ''American Journal of Epidemiology''. The main subjects of the publication include smallpox vaccine, mpox, zoonosis, biological warfare, medicine, intervention, smallpox, isolation, demography, vaccination, contact tracing, disease outbreak, and virology. In this paper, the author examines how the spread of smallpox is affected by isolating overt cases and taking their contacts under close surveillance for up to 3 weeks.