[quote=Hansa]
I guess maybe eradicate was the wrong word, I meant something like "stopping all outbreaks of the disease". Obviously the microbes live on.[/quote]
Aye.

BTW, I do agree that people should vaccinate, and that research should continue on creating new vaccines even if only to presserve the working-knowledge on how to isolate and create an innoculation from a 'wild' non-atenuated strain.

Creating non-innoculating vaccines (modern smallpox vaccine) probably would take too much time and resources in a crisis.