Quiz - 7.16 Virus Control

Vaccinations are used to prevent viral infections.

• True

• False

The poster asks the people to get a polio ___.

• disease

• vaccine

• waiver

• virus

A worldwide vaccination campaign by the World Health Organization led to the eradication of smallpox by the year _____.

• 1965

• 1978

• 1979

• 1980

What disease CANNOT be controlled with vaccinations?

• Measles

• Smallpox

• Polio

• Diabetes

The first disease eradicated by a worldwide vaccination campaign was

• smallpox.

• rubella.

• measles.

• mumps.

Smallpox is a contagious disease.

• True

• False

Early smallpox inoculation involved putting smallpox crusts into the _____ of a healthy person.

• Mouth

• Nostril

• Eyes

• None of these

A vaccine is a mixture of ______ material and other immune stimulants.

• antibody

• antigenic

• adjuvating

Genetically engineered vaccinations produced with recombinant DNA technology are the first time humans have been able to generate immunity to viruses.

• True

• False

Which of the following has been greatly reduced through the use of vaccines?

• measles

• mumps

• rubella

• polio

• All of these