Mythbusters (True/ False)
Vaccines work against bacteria and viruses
What is false?
They are only effective against viruses.
This type of vaccine targets harmful substances produced by a pathogen.
What is a toxoid vaccine?
This component of a vaccine induces the immune response.
What is the active component?
This virus was used in the first vaccine against smallpox.
What is cowpox?
The phenomenon when almost everybody in the population gets vaccinated to protect those that cannot get vaccinated.
What is herd immunity?
Vaccines can cause autism.
What is false?
This idea was based on a deeply flawed study which has been retracted (Buestro, 2017).
This type of vaccine contains a weakened form of the target pathogen.
What is a live-attenuated vaccine?
This allows for lesser quantities of the vaccine and fewer doses.
What is an adjuvant?
(HealthLinkBC, 2017)
This man created the first vaccine and is considered the father of immunology.
Who is Edward Jenner?
This fruit has 12,000 μg of formaldehyde, 120x that of a vaccine.
What is a pear?
Vaccines are not proven to help prevent the flu.
What is false.
Those that receive the flu shot are 60% less likely to receive care for the flu (Bustreo, 2017).
The TDaP vaccine combats tetanus, diphtheria, and this disease.
What is pertussis?
This is used in vaccines to prevent bacterial contamination.
What are antibiotics?
(HealthLinkBC, 2017)
The error-ridden study (which has been retracted) by Andrew Wakefield linked the MMR vaccine to this outcome.
What is autism?
(Rao & Andrade, 2011)
This disease has a new vaccine each year to account for changes in the virus.
What is the flu?
The flu shot can give a patient the flu.
What is false?
The flu shot is a "dead" virus so it cannot cause the patient to contract the flu.
The influenza shot is an example of this kind of vaccine, which does not contain the entire pathogen but rather specific components of it.
What is a subunit vaccine?
This is added to vaccines to make the toxins inactive.
What is formaldehyde?
(HealthLinkBC, 2017)
Post-exposure prophylaxis (receiving the vaccine after exposure) is used for this disease.
What is rabies?
This organization controls vaccine regulations.
What is the FDA?
The flu shot is safe for non-immunocompromised individuals over 6 months of age.
What is true?
This type of vaccine uses a synthetically weakened virus to transport pathogen fragments into the body.
What is a vector vaccine?
This is added to vaccines to make them stable for transportation.
What is albumin?
(HealthLinkBC, 2017)
Jonas Salk developed the first vaccine to which disease?
What is polio?
Vaccines fall under this subset of acquired immunity.
What is artificial actively aquired?