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Vaccine research and development is necessary for controlling transmission, improving community immunity, and preventing the resurgence of debilitating viral diseases.

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Question 1 of 8

Viruses are living organisms.

Question 2 of 8

What type of vaccine makes proteins in order to trigger an immune response?

Question 3 of 8

What was the first vaccine developed against a contagious disease?

Question 4 of 8

In 1993 Kary Mullis jointly won the Nobel Prize for the invention or discovery of what?

Question 5 of 8

How many infectious diseases have been considered “eradicated” or reduced in the global host population down to 0?

Question 6 of 8

Which of these antibody types is the first to respond to an antigen?

Question 7 of 8

This virus has nearly 30,000 nucleotides, but commercial testing kits target just 100 nucleotides that contain two specific genes. If both genes are detected, a patient is considered positive for this virus.

Question 8 of 8

Select the virus that is the largest and most complex in terms of genome size?
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