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hosa biomedical debate exam questionsand answers
Pathogen - Answer -a bacterium, virus, or other microorganism that can cause disease.
Antigens - Answer -Foreign material that invades the body
Antibodies - Answer -Specialized proteins that aid in destroying infectious agents
What do vaccines do? - Answer -Vaccines teach bodies to recognize a pathogen
herd immunity - Answer -when # of immunized people in population reaches threshold
common side effects from a vaccine - Answer -discomfort at injection site, fatigue, and
fever
Herd immunity threshold - Answer -% of population that needs to have immunity to
prevent spread of a disease
Diseases that have been eradicated - Answer -rinderpest, smallpox
VICP - Answer -Vaccine Injury Compensation Program
progress on measles - Answer -95% reduction in measles from 1963
Live attenuated vaccines - Answer -use a weakened (or attenuated) form of the germ
that causes a disease.
What diseases do live vaccines protect against? - Answer -measles, mumps, rubella,
rotavirus, smallpox,chickenpox, yellow fever,
inactivated vaccines - Answer -use the killed version of the germ that causes a disease.
Subunit, recombinant, polysaccharide, and conjugate vaccines - Answer -Subunit,
recombinant, polysaccharide, and conjugate vaccines use specific pieces of the germ
— like its protein, sugar, or capsid (a casing around the germ).
What diseases do inactivated vaccines protect against? - Answer -hepatitis A, flu, polio,
rabies
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