An organized public health effort to vaccinate a large share of a population within a defined period, used both to raise routine immunization coverage and to respond to an active outbreak. Mass vaccination against smallpox is credited as the mechanism that made its 1980 eradication possible.
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Practice ClassPublic health, immunization 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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