Year 9 Vaccination

Which English doctor developed a vaccine against small pox?

• Edward Jenner

• Louis Pasteur

• Alexander Fleming

• John Snow

A vaccine contains a small amount of inactive or dead pathogen

• TRUE

• FALSE

The first vaccine for small pox used pus from someone suffering from which disease?

• Polio

• Chicken pox

• Cow pox

• Cholera

Jonas Salk developed a vaccine against which disease that used to cause a lot of sickness and death in children?

Vaccines can only be used to prevent diseases caused by viruses

• TRUE

• FALSE

A new influenza vaccine needs to be developed and used each year

• TRUE

• FALSE

Answer explanation

The influenza virus mutates and new strains of the virus are produced.

Which childhood disease can be prevented by a vacciation - the symptoms are red spots in a rash

• Measles

• Gonorrhoea

• Cholera

• Diptheria

When was it declared that small pox had been eradicated?

• 1970s

• 1700s

• 1945

• 2020

What term describes a second vaccine that is given to increase antibody levels in the blood?

Somebody who is vaccinated and doesn't suffer from the disease is said to have developed what? (a one word term)