RING VACCINATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ring vaccination mean? 

• RING VACCINATION (noun)
  The noun RING VACCINATION has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: RING VACCINATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RING VACCINATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("ring vaccination" is a kind of...):

inoculating; vaccinating (the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity)

 Context examples 

The study's findings also show the vaccine is effective post-exposure, which makes it suitable for ring vaccination, the anti-outbreak strategy used in the study, in which everyone who has come into contact with a confirmed case is vaccinated to prevent the illness from spreading.

(Study confirms efficacy of NewLink Genetics ebola vaccine, Wikinews)