Vaccine Quiz

Vaccination for diphtheria is far, far better than treatment.

Grouping many vaccines in a single injection improves the effectiveness of each single component given individually.

There is presently enough smallpox vaccine in US stores to immunize the entire world population.

It is a fact that tissue from yesterday's aborted fetuses is added to the vaccines your child your would get tomorrow.

What is true about the pneumococcus vaccine?

If we eliminate aluminum from vaccines we would decrease our daily exposure to aluminum.

Good vaccine information and education by healthcare providers is essential for good patient care.

Vaccine administration needs to be strategically timed for specific ages to prevent the infections that occur at those ages.

Chickenpox and smallpox are very different virus. As a result they are not easily clinically confused.

The hemophilus influenze (Hib) vaccine has done what?

Children who get whooping cough (pertussis) most often get it from an adult whose immunity has waned.

The WI-38 cell strain used for vaccine production will soon cease to replicate and die out.

Formaldehyde is produced naturally in our bodies.

The FDA will not allow abnormal cell strains like HeLa to be used for any vaccine production.

Of the following, which is the least contagious?

MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) vaccine was reported to cause autism by which person?

Which of the statements about mercury (thimerasol) is true?

The VICP programs stands for what?

With what disease did the understanding of how vaccine immunity works begin?

Which of the following is the best answer?

There are two kinds of immunity. Innate immunity provides protection from a small base of infection and antigen exposures without having ever experienced those infections. Acquired or adaptive immunity occurs as a result of infection or vaccination (as happened with cowpox variolation to prevent smallpox).