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Whooping cough

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What two vaccines can help prevent the disease

a)

RNA and mRNA

b)

Dtap and Tdap

c)

I don't know

2.

It is deadly for infants

a)

False

b)

True

3.

Bacterium that causes the disease is

a)

Bordetella Pertussis

b)

Staphylococcus aureus

c)

Helicobacter pylori

4.

What is the scientific name for the whooping cough?

a)

Pertussis

b)

Whales white disease

c)

Anas platyrhynchos

d)

Balaenoptera musculus

5.

Bordetella Pertussis is what shape?

a)

Circle shaped

b)

Rod-shaped

c)

Noodle shaped

d)

Silver colored

6.

How do you get contaminated?

a)

Sneeze, cough droplets

b)

Direct contact with someone who has the disease

c)

Surfaces contaminated with droplets

d)

All of the above

7.

How many people a year catch the disease

a)

3,000

b)

400,000

c)

200,000

d)

50,000

8.

Who discovered the whooping cough?

a)

Jules Bordet and Octave Gengou

b)

George Wells Beadle

c)

Aristotle

d)

Donald Knuth

9.

Elderly people cannot get the whooping cough

a)

False

b)

True

10.

The cough impacts infants more severely because they are unable to fend for themselves.

a)

False

b)

True