  We propose a targeted intervention protocol where recovery is restricted to
individuals that have the least number of infected neighbours. Our recovery
strategy is highly efficient on any kind of network, since epidemic outbreaks
are minimal when compared to the baseline scenario of spontaneous recovery. In
the case of spatially embedded networks, we find that an epidemic stays
strongly spatially confined with a characteristic length scale undergoing a
random walk. We demonstrate numerically and analytically that this dynamics
leads to an epidemic spot with a flat surface structure and a radius that grows
linearly with the spreading rate.
