Vaccines - Multiple Choice Exercise

How are diseases and illnesses often caused ?
1. By bacteria and viruses that attack our body
2. by antibodies that get into our body
3. by vaccinations at a too early age
Vaccines make the body
1. produce antibodies
2. produce more red blood cells
3. produce dead bacteria
After getting a vaccination
1. the body gets used to a weaker form of a virus
2. the body never lets the same virus into it
3. the body always becomes ill for a short time
A flu vaccination must be given to a person every year because
1. the virus can change from one year to the next
2. it is too strong to stay in your body forever
3. the vaccine dies after a certain period of time
Babies a born
1. with some natural anitbodies form their mother
2. without any immunity
3. with dead antibodies
A serious illness called smallpox
1. has almost disappeared today
2. is only existent in countries in which people travel a lot
3. is related to dog bites
Third World countries have more infectious diseases
1. because they do not have enough medicine and vaccines
2. because the climate is hotter and it is not very healthy to live there
3. because the World Health Organisation only works in industrial nations
An English scientist, Edward Jenner, carried out experiments with
1. smallpox
2. malaria
3. the flu
Most vaccines are
1. injected
2. inhaled
3. taken by mouth