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Quiz Questions
- The MMR vaccine protects your child against which three infections?
- What remains the only human disease to be eradicated through vaccination?
- What is the term for additional injections administered to extend the immunity provided by previous vaccinations?
- The varicella vaccine protects against which infectious disease?
- What is the term for a substance added to vaccines to increase the body's immune response?
- Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine has changed its name to what?
- In 1796, Edward Jenner demonstrated that an infection with which relatively mild virus gave immunity against the deadly smallpox virus?
- Medical researcher Albert Sabin is best known for developing an oral vaccine for which infectious disease?
- Which French scientist developed the first rabies vaccination in 1885?
- Which well-known vaccine for tuberculosis is commonly referred to by a three-letter acronym?
- The primary goal of pertussis vaccination is to prevent what?
- True or false? An annual flu vaccine was first offered to those in certain clinical risk groups in England in the late 1970s?
- Which pharmaceutical and biotechnology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, developed a COVID-19 vaccine in 2020?
- Which American virologist if famous for developng one of the first successful polio vaccines?
- What event of the early 20th-century made finding an influenza vaccine a US military priority?
- Who is often considered the "father of immunology" for his work in developing the concept of vaccination?
Answers
- Measles, mumps and rubella (German measles)
- Smallpox
- Boosters
- Chickenpox
- Adjuvants
- Comirnaty
- Cowpox virus
- Polio
- Louis Pasteur (and Emile Roux is also a correct answer)
- BCG
- Whooping cough
- FALSE. (It was the late 1960s)
- Moderna
- Jonas Salk
- The Spanish Flu pandemic
- Edward Jenner