Vaccination (AQA GCSE Biology Combined Science): Quizzes
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What do vaccines contain to help protect against diseases?
What do vaccines contain to help protect against diseases?
Dead or weakened pathogens
Which of these is a bacterial disease that vaccines protect against?
Which of these is a bacterial disease that vaccines protect against?
Tetanus
What do white blood cells do when you receive a vaccine?
What do white blood cells do when you receive a vaccine?
Detect the harmless pathogens
What does your immune system create to fight the pathogens in a vaccine?
What does your immune system create to fight the pathogens in a vaccine?
Antibodies
What is herd immunity?
What is herd immunity?
When most people vaccinated, disease can't spread
How do vaccine side effects compare to the actual disease?
How do vaccine side effects compare to the actual disease?
Much milder than the actual disease
Why do some vaccines like flu vaccines only give partial protection?
Why do some vaccines like flu vaccines only give partial protection?
Different strains of same pathogen
Which diseases does the MMR vaccine protect against?
Which diseases does the MMR vaccine protect against?
Measles, mumps and rubella
What happened when MMR vaccination rates were high (over 90%)?
What happened when MMR vaccination rates were high (over 90%)?
Measles cases were very low
Why can your immune system quickly destroy real pathogens after vaccination?
Why can your immune system quickly destroy real pathogens after vaccination?
It remembers how to fight disease