Antibiotics
1. What's the difference between antibiotics and other medicines?
2. Why can't we use antibiotics whenever we want? Why are they so special?
3. We are told in the media that we shouldn’t use antibiotics for coughs and colds, why is
that?
4. So, why don't antibiotics work on viruses?
5. What is antibiotic resistance?
6. Will I become resistant to antibiotics if I take too many?
7. Oh ok so it’s the bacteria that become resistant then. So can I spread them to my friends
or family?
8. Surely it's up to the doctors and scientists to sort this out, why is it my problem?
9. If the bacteria are becoming resistant, why can't they just make new ones?
10. How important are antibiotics to medicine today?
11. How easy is it to develop new antibiotics?
12. Should young people be worried about antibiotic resistance? How does it affect them?
13. Whose responsibility is it to tackle antibiotic resistance?
14. What are the implications of rising levels of antibiotic resistance for the future?
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Vaccinations
1. What are vaccines?
2. How do vaccines work?
3. I’ve heard that vaccines are really a small dose of the disease so I’d be putting harmful
germs in my body – is this true?
4. Why do I need to know about vaccines, haven’t I had them all as a baby?
5. What are vaccine preventable diseases?
6. Could I get ill if I have a vaccine? / Can I get ill from the vaccine?
7. What would happen if I didn’t get a vaccine?
8. Is it true that if all my friends are vaccinated then I don’t have to get it? / what is herd
immunity?
9. What are the side effects of vaccines?
10. Will getting a vaccine weaken my immune system?
11. Isn’t it better for my immune system to have the actual infection rather than the vaccine?
12. If measles is a vaccine preventable disease then why are people getting it now?
13. I have heard that diseases you usually get as a kid, like measles, is more dangerous if
you get it as an adult – does this mean that its more dangerous to get vaccinated
against measles as an adult too?
14. Why are so many people worried about having vaccines?
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