Vaccine Overview
The type of immunity in which unvaccinated people are protected from disease because a very high proportion of the population is vaccinated
What is herd immunity?
The disease the first vaccine protected from
What is smallpox?
The term used for a person who is opposed to vaccination
The most famous antibiotic in the world, developed by Sir Alexander Fleming
What is penicillin?
British king who had six wives and killed two of them
Who was Henry VIII?
What MMR stands for
What is measles, mumps, and rubella?
Disease that was eradicated by 1980 with the help of vaccines
The British journal in which Andrew Wakefield published his infamous 1998 study about vaccines and autism
What is The Lancet?
What is a protein?
The first species of animal to be cloned
What is a sheep?
The route used when you want a vaccine to be quickly delievered
What is the intramuscular route?
The vaccine who protected against a paralytic disease and whom whose creators refused to patent
What is the polio vaccine?
The amount of money Pfizer made from COVID vaccines
What is $80 billion?
The term describing the visual display of the onset of illness among cases associated with an outbreak
What is an epi-curve?
The 5th most populous state in the US
What is Pennsylvania?
The two main ways the pathogens in inactivated vaccines are killed
What is heat treatment and formaldehyde exposure?
The way variolation worked
What is grinding up smallpox scabs and sniffing them?
Two of the three chemicals found in vaccines that are commonly scapegoated because they sound dangerous
What is aluminum, thiomersal, and formaldehyde?
The number quantifying the average number of news infections one diseased person can cause in a population where everyone is susceptible, denoted by R0 (R-naught).
What is the basic reproductive number?
TJ's current national ranking according to US News & World Report
What is 14?
Five of the six components of vaccines
What are preservatives, stabilizers, surfactants, residuals, dilutants, and adjuvants?
5 vaccines you receive at birth and throughout childhood
What is HepB, DTap, HiB, IPV, RV, PCV13, Flu, Varicella, HepA, and COVID-19?
Two reasons why vaccine skepticism is so dangerous
What is preventing herd immunity, threatening those with compromised immune systems, threatening children & infants, and causing comebacks of old diseases?
The type of epidemiological study in which it tracks an outbreak in a small and well-defined population with people that share common characteristics, and can take many years to complete
What is a cohort study?
Capital of Australia
What is Canberra?