Quiz · How Vaccines Changed Human History

Question 1What is the main idea of this talk?

Doctors today still fear smallpox Vaccines developed from careful observation have transformed human health Milkmaids were the first doctors to study disease Many dangerous diseases cannot be stopped by science

Question 2What did the country doctor notice about milkmaids?

They were afraid of the new vaccine They often died from the cowpox disease Those who had caught cowpox rarely became sick with smallpox They refused to help with his experiments

Question 3According to the talk, what happened to smallpox by nineteen eighty?

It spread to every country in the world It became less dangerous than cowpox Doctors stopped vaccinating against it It was completely wiped out by a worldwide vaccination campaign