Vaccine Quiz

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This is an open-book test. The Flipbook Table of Contents can be opened and closed using the appropriate icon along the bottom of the flipbook above, where you will find the answers to the questions. Most questions are worth 1 point, but some are worth more. A passing score is a "C" which is 70%. You are welcome to take the test again and again until you pass.

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The baby of a pregnant mother who becomes infected with chickenpox may have blindness, mental retardation, and can even die. (See Chickenpox vs Smallpox in Vaccine Education Flipbook.)

True

False

Antibiotics treat bacteria and viruses. (See What Smallpox Taught Us in Vaccine Education Flipbook.)

True

False

Which of the statements about mercury (thimerasol) is true? (See Mercury in Vaccines in Vaccine Education Flipbook.)

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

Thimerasol is used to preserve all vaccines.

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

Thimerasol is risky but required for all vaccines.

Children who get whooping cough (pertussis) most often get it from an adult whose immunity has waned. (See Combining Vaccines in Vaccine Education Flipbook.)

True

False

Measles contagion and low vaccination rates have together pushed up the trend toward physicians who are refusing to accept unvaccinated patients. (See Measles Contagion in Vaccine Education Flipbook.)

True

False

If we eliminate aluminum from vaccines we would decrease our daily exposure to aluminum. (See Aluminum in Vaccine Education Flipbook.)

True

False

All of the following are characteristic of measles except which one? (See Measles in Vaccine Education Flipbook.)

Cough

Coryza (profuse runny nose)

Rash

Koplik spots

Low grade fever

The hemophilus influenze (Hib) vaccine has done what? (See Delayed Vaccination in Vaccine Education Flipbook.)

Practically eliminated hemophilus meningitis in children.

Significantly reduced the associated bacterial blood infection and fever.

Significantly reduced the incidence of H. flu pneumonia.

All of the these.

MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) vaccine was reported to cause autism by which person? (See MMR & Autism in Vaccine Education Flipbook.)

Edwin Hubble

Edward Jenner

James Phipps

Andrew Wakefield

10.

There is a risk in delaying vaccination beyond the recommended administration schedules. (See Acquired Immunity in Vaccine Education Flipbook.)

True

False

11.

The VICP programs stands for what? (See Review 6 in Vaccine Education Flipbook.)

Vaccine Information & Care Prevention

Vaccine Information & Course Program

Vaccine Injury Compensation Program

12.

It is a fact that tissue from yesterday's aborted fetuses is added to the vaccines your child your would get tomorrow. (See 1. Fetal Tissue and Vaccines through 4. Fetal Tissue and Vaccines in Vaccine Education Flipbook.)

True

False

13.

The WI-38 cell strain used for vaccine production will soon cease to replicate and die out. (See 4. Fetal Tissue and Vaccines in Vaccine Education Flipbook.)

True

False

14.

Formaldehyde is produced naturally in our bodies. (See Formaldehyde in Vaccine Education Flipbook.)

True

False

15.

Diphtheria in a patient is contagious to caretakers. (See Diphtheria in Vaccine Education Flipbook.)

True

False

16.

There are how many forms of smallpox? (See Smallpox Virus in Vaccine Education Flipbook.)

One

Two

Three

Four

Five

17.

The FDA will not allow abnormal cell strains like HeLa to be used for any vaccine production. (See 2. Fetal Tissue and Vaccines in Vaccine Education Flipbook.)

True

False

18.

Chickenpox parties intentionally exposed susceptible children to a child with chickenpox in order to give them the infection. (See Chickenpox vs Smallpox in Vaccine Education Flipbook.)

True

False

19.

What is true about the pneumococcus vaccine? (See Delayed Vaccination in Vaccine Education Flipbook.)

It wasn’t always effective below age two.

It has improved significantly in recent years.

It has reduced the frequency of bacterial fevers in children.

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

All of the these.

20.

Grouping many vaccines in a single injection improves the effectiveness of each single component given individually. (See Combining Vaccines in Vaccine Education Flipbook.)

True

False

21.

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. (See Polio Pandemia in Vaccine Education Flipbook.)

True

False

What was the last name of the first US President?