Q 01/05

What kind of protection does a vaccine provide?

A) Passive inherited immunity

B) Active acquired immunity

C) Innate immunity

D) Temporary borrowed immunity

Answer · why

B) Active acquired immunity

The immune system learns to recognise the agent as a threat and destroys the real pathogen when it turns up later.

Q 02/05

The words 'vaccine' and 'vaccination' derive from the Latin for smallpox of which animal?

A) The pig

B) The horse

C) The sheep

D) The cow

Answer · why

D) The cow

Edward Jenner coined Variolae vaccinae for cowpox in 1798, and the term was later extended to all such inoculations.

Q 03/05

What is the science of vaccine development and production called?

A) Immunography

B) Serology

C) Vaccinology

D) Inoculatics

Answer · why

C) Vaccinology

Smallpox was the first disease for which a vaccine was ever produced, and the first to be eradicated by one.

Q 04/05

For how many preventable infections does the WHO say licensed vaccines are available?

A) One hundred

B) Fifty-two

C) Twelve

D) Twenty-five

Answer · why

D) Twenty-five

Vaccines remain elusive for others, including herpes simplex, malaria, gonorrhoea and HIV.

Q 05/05

Who brought the folk practice of smallpox inoculation from Turkey to Britain in 1721?

A) Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

B) Mary Seacole

C) Florence Nightingale

D) Elizabeth Blackwell

Answer · why

A) Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

She had her four-year-old daughter variolated in front of royal physicians on her return to England.