[bonesmccoy]

Dr. Henderson has also stated publicly that ring vaccination is not a good strategy, and Henderson has alot more experience in this matter than nearly anyone else in the United States.

[tallhappy]

Ring Vaccination does not apply in a bioterror attack because the number of index cases can be in the hundreds to thousands.

Yes. Ring vaccination worked well near the end of smallpox' existence in response to one or a handful of cases.

DA Henderson probably developed and carried out ring vaccination in the first place and it was very effective.

But the dynamics of a deliberate release of pathogen in to the population would be very different than that which was formerly met with ring vaccination.