Vaccines

Question 1

how many people were killed by the black death

Answer 1

200 million

Question 2

how many people were killed by small pox

Answer 2

56 million

Question 3

how many people were killed by HIV/AIDS

Answer 3

25-35 million

Question 4

explain Catherine the Great’s relation to small pox

Answer 4

• she was worried as a lot of her family had gotten small pox
• she got Thomas Dimsdale
• he cut the blister scab off a person with smallpox and then smeared it on the skin of someone who was unaffected to vaccinate them

Question 5

what did Thomas Jefferson do

Answer 5

• noticed that milk maids who had small pox did not get cow pox
• came up with the hypothesis that cow pox vaccinated you against small pox
• this hypothesis was successful

Question 6

what is the result of Edward Jenner’s hypothesis

Answer 6

smallpox has essentially been eradicated from the planet

Question 7

what do all vaccines have in common

Answer 7

they share a common goal to trick the body into thinking that you have a virus by ejecting a dead or weak virus into you system, so that when you get the actual virus your body knows how to attack

Question 8

live attenuated vaccine

Answer 8

type of vaccine that contains a weakened form of the pathogen that causes the disease. The pathogen is altered so that it no longer causes severe illness in vaccinated individuals, but still triggers an immune response

Question 9

inactivated vaccine

Answer 9

inactivated vaccine is a type of vaccine that contains pathogens that have been killed,

Question 10

protein sub-unit vaccines

Answer 10

type of vaccine that contains only specific proteins or protein subunits derived from the pathogen that causes the disease

protein subunit vaccines do not contain any live components of the pathogen.

Question 11

mRNA vaccines

Answer 11

uses mRNA molecules to instruct cells in the body to produce a protein that triggers an immune response against a specific pathogen, such as a virus

Question 12

how do mRNA vaccines work