vaccines

Question 1

Richard Pfieffer

Answer 1

misidentifies cause of influenza - Pfieffer’s bacillus

Question 2

Joseph Stokes

Answer 2

early influenza vaccine trials

Question 3

Thomas Francis Jr

Answer 3

first american to isolate the influenza virus in humans, discovers influenza exists in multiple types (A and B)

Question 4

John Enders

Answer 4

cultivates poliovirus in non human tissue 1949

Question 5

Hilary Koprowski

Answer 5

tests experimental polio vaccine type 2 in disabled children 1950

Question 6

Jonas Salk

Answer 6

developed “killed virus” (injected) polio vaccine 1955
Salk lab launched from Enders lab research
Needed to generate antibodies without giving polio

Question 7

Albert Sabin

Answer 7

created “live” but weakened (oral) polio vaccine 1961
cheaper and more effective

Question 8

Thomas Peebles

Answer 8

first to isolate measles virus

Question 9

Samuel Katz

Answer 9

first measles vaccine 1958

Question 10

Maurice Hilleman

Answer 10

first mumps vaccine 1968

Question 11

Jeffrey Taubenberger

Answer 11

NIH, isolates the genome sequence of the Spanish flu in 1997

Question 12

Kennedy

Answer 12

Vaccination assistance act - provided federal funding to states to buy vaccine and vaccinators

Question 13

Carter

Answer 13

Childhood immunization initiative - focus on schools, persuasion to compulsion
national childhood vaccine injury act 1986

Question 14

Clinton

Answer 14

Vaccines for children program - focus on reducing cost of vaccination

Question 15

Biologics control act

Answer 15

Jim horse, gov control of processes to produce biological products

Question 16

FD&C act

Answer 16

sulfanilamide incident, FDA oversee food drugs and cosmetics

Question 17

cutter incident

Answer 17

cutter labs didn’t inactivate polio virus enough in vaccines -> many polio cases

Question 18

VAERS

Answer 18

vaccine adverse early reporting system

Question 19

malaria vaccines

Answer 19

RTS,S and R21 matrix M