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Since for the past 30 years outbreaks of smallpox have occurred infrequently in most parts of the developed world, it seems reasonable to seek that level of vaccine-induced immunity which minimizes the average number of deaths that would occur between the ends of two successive epidemics. This amounts to choosing the level of susceptibility s in a population so that the average number of deaths which occur during one (long) period when there is no disease present and the subsequent (short) period of epidemic is a minimum.
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Frauenthal, J.C. (1981). The Optimal Vaccination Policy. In: Smallpox: When Should Routine Vaccination Be Discontinued?. The UMAP Expository Monograph Series. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-6719-2_7
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