Vaccine Quiz

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There is a smallpox vaccine, although it is fairly old, and the efficacy is unknown. Is the smallpox vaccine widely available to the public?

True

False

If we eliminate aluminum from vaccines we would decrease our daily exposure to aluminum.

True

False

Which of the statements about mercury (thimerasol) is true?

Thimerasol is a vaccine preservative that contains high amounts of methyl mercury.

Industrial mercury is methyl mercury and is the cause for Minimata Disease.

Thimerasol is risky but required for all vaccines.

Thimerasol is used to preserve all vaccines.

The hemophilus influenze (Hib) vaccine has done what?

Significantly reduced the incidence of H. flu pneumonia.

All of the these.

Significantly reduced the associated bacterial blood infection and fever.

Practically eliminated hemophilus meningitis in children.

The advantage of the live attenuated polio vaccine was that the virus could innoculate other non-immunized children who were exposed to a child who was immunized. The inactivated (dead) polio vaccine that we use today does not work this way.

True

False

The WI-38 cell strain used for vaccine production will soon cease to replicate and die out.

True

False

A coughing measles patient in a waiting area can render the room contagious for how long?

7 hours

5 hours

20 minutes

3 hours

1 hour

Vaccine adminstration needs to done at a point when the immune system can and will mount a memory for the infection against which it protects. Some vaccines require boosters to fully protect a majority of individuals. Smallpox vaccination protects for seven years with one vaccination.

True

False

Grouping many vaccines in a single injection improves the effectiveness of each single component given individually.

True

False

Children who get whooping cough (pertussis) most often get it from an adult whose immunity has waned.

True

False

Chickenpox in pregnancy can be very dangerous for the unborn child resulting in serious medical problems.

True

False

It is a fact that tissue from yesterday's aborted fetuses is added to the vaccines your child your would get tomorrow.

True

False

Formaldehyde is produced naturally in our bodies.

True

False

What is true about the pneumococcus vaccine?

It has reduced the number of ear infection over the last thirty years.

It has improved significantly in recent years.

It wasn’t always effective below age two.

It has reduced the frequency of bacterial fevers in children.

All of the these.

The VICP provides for what?

Support for families of those who die of smallpox.

Counseling for physicians in the case of vaccine lawsuits.

Compensation for persons purportedly injured by vaccines.

The grey membrane in the back of the throat is characteristic of what?

Infectious mononucleosis

Diphtheria

Strep pharyngitis

Which of the following is true?

MMR is definitely linked to autism.

MMR has no link to autism.

Viral particles require a host cell to multiply and create more virus for vaccine production. The host cell dies as a result.

True

False

A viral contaminant called SV40 was found in some monkey kidney cell strains used to produce virus particles for vaccines. As a result, the FDA prevented the use of non-human cell strains for all human vaccines.

True

False