Mystery Science: How do vaccines work?

Choose the correct word to make the sentence true.

(Antibiotics / Vaccines) are medicines that you take because you are ALREADY sick.

Choose the correct word in () that makes the sentence true.

A(n) (antibiotic / vaccine) is something that you take BEFORE you ever get sick.

Choose the correct word in () that makes the sentence true.

You should take a (antibiotic / vaccine) while you're healthy, not sick.

Name the disease that for thousands of years would cause a rash, high fever, and often resulted in death.

People who worked with ______________ were not getting smallpox at all.

• turtles

• dogs

• cows

• cats

Name the disease that farm workers were getting from cows?

How were smallpox and cowpox alike? (check 2)

• fever

• cowpox is more deadly

• rash

• both made you, "Moo," instead of talk

What is the biggest difference between smallpox and cowpox?

• Cowpox was much more deadly.

• Smallpox was much more deadly.

• Cowpox made people talk like cows.

• Smallpox shrunk the height of people.

What Latin word meaning, "Cow," does vaccine get its name from?

Which cells have to learn how to fight a disease in your body?

• red blood cells

• immune cells

• fat cells

• happy cells