Vaccine for All? Math model supports mass smallpox inoculation

Widespread vaccinations after a terrorist attack with the smallpox virus would save thousands more lives than the response plan currently being considered by the U.S. government, a new study finds.

The government plan, devised by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, would combat a smallpox outbreak by quarantining sick people and vaccinating anyone who had come in contact with an infected person.