These are some of the vaccines that children are required to receive to enter Kindergarten.
What are the MMR ( Measles, Mumps and Rubella) vaccines?
100
This common vaccine must be received yearly.
What is the influenza vaccine?
100
This disease does not cause symptoms in most people who are effected with it, but it can cause paralysis or death in one percent of people who have it. It killed thousands of people in the U.S. before a vaccine was created in 1955.
What is Polio?
100
This vaccine has been reported to be completely wiped off the planet, but the CDC still recommends that you get it if you plan to live in another country.
What is the smallpox vaccine?
200
This person was one of the first presidents to stand by vaccinations.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
Children are required to receive their DTap ( Diphtheria, Tetanus and Pertussis) vaccinations in order to enter this grade
When is kindergarten.
200
This vaccine is not required in every state for schools but it is required in Ohio. It helps protect teenagers from sexually transmitted diseases.
What is the meningitis vaccine?
200
This extremely contagious vaccine starts with a fever and eventually causes cough, runny nose, rash (etc.)
What is measles?
200
This vaccine is not commonly used in the U.S but it is typically given to children in poverty stuck nations to prevent TB bacteria.
What is the tuberculosis vaccine?
300
This person created the first polio vaccine
Who is Dr. Jonas Salk?
300
Students must receive a booster for this vaccine to enter 7th grade.
What is the Dtap vaccine?
300
This vaccine is commonly known as Gardasil and it protects teenagers from sexually transmitted diseases and helps prevent ovarian cancer in females.
What is the human papillomavirius vaccine?
300
This disease is also commonly called "lockjaw" and it is caused by bacteria found in nature that breaks through the skin.
What is the tetanus vaccine?
300
This vaccine is only required after a person is directly exposed to this disease. Most people receive this disease from scratches or bites from wild animals.
What is the rabies vaccine?
400
In 1933 what two men created the first influenza vaccine?
Who is Thomas Salk and Thomas Francis?
400
In what grade do students need to recieve a booster for the MMR (Mumps, Measles, Rubella) vaccine?
When is 7th grade?
400
In order to prevent this virus you must either have had it before, or have received the vaccine.
What is the chicken pox vaccine?
400
The bacteria from this disease (Corynebacterium diphtheriae) causes a thick bacteria to grow in the back of the throat, which may lead to difficulty in breathing, paralysis and death in its victims.
What is Diphtheria?
400
This vaccine is recommended to be received 10 days before you travel to certain places in both Africa and South America, it is commonly transmitted through mosquito bites.
What is the yellow fever vaccine?
500
In this year the first Hepatitis A vaccine was created.
What is 1995?
500
In Ohio the Meningitis vaccine is required for students in before they can enter this grade.
What is 12th grade?
500
This vaccine helps prevent people from receiving this other virus in their later life that is the result of having chicken pox.
What is the shingles vaccine?
500
This highly contagious respiratory disease causes violent coughing which makes it hard to breathe.
What is Whooping Cough?
500
This vaccine is not readily available to the general public but can be recieved by people who have already had b. anthracis or have come into contact with people who have this disease.