Definition
Substance that helps the body fight diseases
A vaccine
First person to make a vaccine
Edward Jenner
Uses a weakened germ
Love attenuated vaccine
Prevents polio
Polio vaccine
Vaccines prevent these large disease outbreaks
Epidemics
The process of giving a vaccine
Vaccination
Year of the first smallpox vaccine
1796
Uses a killer germ
Inactivated vaccine
Protects against measles, mumps, rubella
MMR vaccine
Help protect unvaccinated people
Here immunity
Protection developed after a vaccine
Immunity
The disease eradicated in 1980
Smallpox
Subunit vaccine
Two COVID-19 mRNA vaccines
Pfizer and moderna
Reduces this economic burden
Healthcare costs
Type of immunity vaccines give without getting sick first
Artificial active immunity
Scientist who developed the rabies vaccine
Louis Pasteur
Uses genetic instructions like mRNA
mRNA vaccine
Vaccines given at birth to prevent hepatitis B
Hepatitis B vaccine
Vaccines reduce the need for these medicines
Antibiotics
The immune cells that "remember" a disease
Memory cells
Country were the first vaccine was developed
England
Uses a harmless virus to deliver genetic material
Viral vector vaccine
Protects against a bacterial disease that can cause choking spasms
Diphtheria vaccine
Main reason life expectancy has increased
Disease prevention