Vaccines

True or false: A vaccine contains a healthy pathogen.

• True

• False

A vaccine contains a .......... form of the pathogen.

True or false: After you have a vaccine, your body produces antibodies just for that pathogen.

• True

• False

The type of white blood cells which make antibodies are called ..........

True or false: Some people are allergic to vaccines.

• True

• False

Vaccines give you immunity to a disease forever.

• True

• False

• It depends on the disease.

Vaccines can be ..........

• injected only.

• ingested only.

• injected or ingested.

• not injected or ingested.

True or false: Vaccines have to be stored very carefully at low temperatures.

• True

• False

True or false: Some people can have bad reactions to vaccines.

• True

• False

Babies are born with antibodies that make them immune to many diseases for a short time (this is called passive immunity). Suggest where these antibodies come from.