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Definition of Ring vaccination
1. Noun. Administering vaccine only to people in close contact with an isolated infected patient; prevents the spread of a highly infectious disease by surrounding the patient with a ring of immunization.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ring Vaccination
Literary usage of Ring vaccination
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Smallpox Vaccination Program: Public Health in an Age of Terrorism by Alina Baciu (2005)
"A critical component of this strategy was the program known as ring vaccination.
When a smallpox case was identified, all immediate contacts and their ..."
2. Emerging Systemic Risks in the 21st Century: An Agenda for Action by (Paris) Organisation for Economic Co-ope, Reza Lahidji, OECD International Futures Programme (2003)
"Whether or not the economic benefits of shortening the epidemic using ring
vaccination will outweigh the additional costs is very difficult to assess at the ..."
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