Vaccines: http://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/how-vaccines-work
Go to the website above to learn about the process of vaccines. Answer the questions
below which correspond to different parts of the webpage.
How Vaccines Work
1. What is a pathogen and how are vaccines like pathogens?
2. What is an APC?
3. What is the order of the cellular response to the vaccine?
4. What is the difference between the primary and secondary immune response?
Click on the VACCINE RESPONSE ACTIVITY and click BEGIN. After you have successfully
completed the activity, print out the picture with the agents in the correct order.
Principle Breakthroughs
Match the disease to the creator of the vaccine and write down some interesting information
regarding the creation of the vaccine.
Disease
Creator
Interesting Fact(s)
5. Smallpox __________________________________________________________________________
6. Rabies
__________________________________________________________________________
7. Yellow Fever ________________________________________________________________________
8. Measles
__________________________________________________________________________
9. Polio
__________________________________________________________________________
10. Diphtheria __________________________________________________________________________
Koch’s Postulates
11. Who was Robert Koch and what was his field of interest?
12. What is the first postulate?
13. What is the second postulate?
14. What is the third postulate?
15. What is the fourth postulate?
How Vaccines are Made
16. Where are vaccines made?
17. What are the steps to the creation of vaccines?
Types of Vaccines
18. What are the three types of vaccines?
19. How are these vaccines different?
Herd Immunity
20. What is herd immunity and what does the animation show?
Understanding Risk
21. What are some of the legitimate risks of getting vaccinated?
22. (not from site) What are some highly publicized “risks” of getting vaccines that Jenny McCarthy speaks
about everywhere?
Illsville: Fight the Disease
23. What parameters did you setup in your town and what happened?
24. Change the parameters drastically and see what happens in the town.
25. What parameters can you set up to have the healthiest town?