Microbes and Vaccines Unmasked

What this quiz asks

• What kind of microbe causes the common cold?
• To which kingdom of life does the organism shown here belong?
• Most kinds of bacteria are harmful to humans.
• In 1796 Edward Jenner protected a boy against smallpox using material taken from a sore caused by which disease?
• Pasteurisation, named after Louis Pasteur, keeps milk safe by doing what to it?
• Can a virus multiply on its own, outside a living cell?
• What are the Y-shaped proteins that the immune system makes to latch on to specific invaders?
• Select ALL of these diseases that are caused by bacteria.
• Louis Pasteur's famous swan-neck flask experiments of the early 1860s disproved which old idea?
• Bacteria described as 'cocci' have which shape?
• Which Dutch cloth merchant became the first person to see bacteria, through microscopes he made himself, in the 1670s?
• Penicillin only became available in large quantities during the Second World War.
• Select ALL of these that are types of white blood cell.
• What does 'herd immunity' mean?
• In what year was smallpox officially declared eradicated worldwide?
• Which German doctor set out the rules, or 'postulates', for proving that a particular microbe causes a particular disease?
• In the 1840s Ignaz Semmelweis cut deaths in a Vienna maternity ward by making doctors do what?
• Order these from the smallest to the largest by typical size.
• The Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines gave the body genetic instructions to make a viral protein. What carried them?
• The cosmetic treatment Botox is made from a toxin produced by which bacterium?