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Polio: A paralyzing fear

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What year did the first major outbreak of polio in the USA occur?

a)

1906

b)

1916

c)

1926

d)

1966

2.

What body change in homeostasis indicates you are fighting an infection?

a)

body temperature decreases

b)

headache

c)

paralysis

d)

body temperature increases

3.

Which of these people had polio?

a)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

b)

Izhak Perlman

c)

Wilma Rudolph

d)

All of these

4.

Basil O'Connor ran the polio campaign because

a)

He was a lawyer

b)

He wanted to earn a lot of money

c)

He would be respected

d)

FDR asked him to and he was very loyal to FDR

5.

There is a cure for polio

a)

true

b)

false

6.

Incorrect hypotheses about polio are

a)

cats carried the disease

b)

infection went from the nose to the brain

c)

getting the disease was a sign of bad character

d)

all of these

7.

An advantage of the killed virus vaccine was

a)

it could be developed faster

b)

it could be administered orally

c)

it protected the community

d)

all of these

8.

A disadvantage of the killed virus vaccine was

a)

it took longer to develop a safe vaccine

b)

the community would not be protected

c)

it could be administered orally

d)

all of these

9.

A placebo polio vaccine has

a)

killed virus in it

b)

an adjuvant but no virus

c)

live virus in it

d)

virus but no adjuvant

10.

The first polio vaccine was developed by

a)

Jonas Salk

b)

Albert Sabin

c)

Basil O'Connor

d)

Franklin Roosevelt