Science Quiz 80: Health Quiz - Know more about Vaccines 2

Science Quiz 80: Health Quiz - Know more about Vaccines 2

This is a part in the series of questions on vaccines to test and improve your knowledge on vaccines.

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1. Which vaccine is given soon after birth?

Polio
MMR
Hepatitis B
Varicella

2. The first vaccine developed was against which disease?

Measles
Polio
Rabies
Smallpox

3. In which year the last naturally occuring case of smallpox was diagnosed?

1990
1977
1962
1987

4. Which one of the following vaccines were developed by Louis Pasteur?

Rabies
Anthrax
Both A and B
Only B

5. The BCG vaccine is named after two scientists who developed it first - Albert Calmette and Camille Guerin. Do you know their nationality?

French
German
American
British

6. Pentavalent Vaccine is a vaccine that contains five antigens. Which one of the following disease is not one among them?

Polio
Diphtheria
Hepatitis B
Pertussis

7. DTP vaccine does NOT provide protection against which disease?

Diphtheria
Tetanus
Pertussis
Malaria

8. Pertussis is commonly known as

Whooping cough
Diarrhoea
Asthma
Viral fever

9. Which one of the following is also known as German Measles?

Diphtheria
Rubella
Rabies
Anthrax

10. Some vaccines are made from attenuated viruses. What does "attenuated" mean?

Dead
Treated
Weakened
Killed

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