Vaccines - Questions
What percentage of infants are vaccinated against polio (along with diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis) worldwide?
85%.
"___ was killing more than two million children a year worldwide within the 1980s."
Measles.
What was the term (or abbreviation of the term) used to describe a hypothetical virus that would be extremely lethal and very difficult to manage?
Maximally Malignant Monster Virus / MMMV.
"If the next pandemic was going to be ___, that didn't strike most as especially shattering.
Influenza.
What are the two diseases that are no longer prevalent in the United States of America because of vaccines?
Polio, Rubella.
"After the negotiated discount and additional financial support, the government will pay about ___ for each two-dose course of a vaccine that currently costs an American physician ___."
$0.50, $220.
What factors could be responsible for a release of lethal microbes?
Climate Change, Mass Urbanizaition
"What's it been like to watch the ___ ___ unfold nearly three decades after I wrote that it would in pretty much this way?"
What is the term used to describe the process in which a disease vanishes from a society due to the people within the society having high immunization to the disease?
Herd Immunity.
"The poorest regions of ___ and ___ are precisely where any pneumococcal infection is the likeliest to kill or permanently cripple a child."
Africa, South Asia.
What are the three regions that SARS, MERS, and Ebola are primarily found in?
Asia, The Middle East, West Africa.
"With viruses, in which only a few changes can make a huge difference in the way the ___ behaves."
Microbes.
What kind of bacteria is known for being found anywhere across the world?
Pneumococcal bacteria.
"The ___ ___ Campus in the Belgian city of Wavre is the biggest vaccine production facility in the world.
Sprawling GSK.
What is the name of the person known for their extensive research and knowledge on influenza and the vaccine for it?
Edwin Kilbourne.
"But never since the ___ Influenza pandemic has any virus been on this scale."
1918-1919.
What are the three countries that still report polio cases to this day?
Nigeria, Pakistan, Afghanistan.
"In the poorest countries of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, ___ kills by the hundreds of thousands."
Rotavirus.
What is the name of the virologist who created the term "emerging viruses"?
Stephen Morse.
"We've been '___' away the safety of our species for decades."
Othering.