Public Health Response Activities
The following sections describe the actions local and state public health departments would need to take during a smallpox emergency. The sections provide specific information and points of consideration for emergency planning purposes.
![Public health professionals work at computers to manage a public health emergency.](/smallpox/images/bioterrorism-response-planning/EOC-Main-Floor-2-325.jpg?_=03134)
- Identify, Diagnose, and Isolate Cases
- Enhanced Surveillance and Case Reporting
- Epidemiological Investigation
- Vaccination Strategies
- Ring Vaccination
- Community-Wide (Mass) Vaccination
- Maxi-Vac and Maxi-Vac Alternative 2.0 – Smallpox Vaccination Clinic Planning Tool
- Communication
- Information Management