I created the first vaccine, called the smallpox vaccine, thanks to the help of a cow and a milkmaid!
Edward Jenner
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Like cows helped us make the smallpox vaccine, chickens helped us make the flu vaccine. Flu vaccines were first made using chicken eggs. Now, we still use eggs to make some flu vaccines, but new discoveries help us make flu vaccines in other ways too.
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Vaccines are made in a few different ways:
Use part of the virus.
Use part of the bacteria.
Use dead virus.
Use live, weakened virus.
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A lot of scientists helped make vaccines over many years. Scientists all over the world today still work to make vaccines, so we can be healthy.
We developed the first whooping cough vaccine.
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I developed the polio vaccine. The public paid for the research by sending dimes to the White House. That was the start of the March of Dimes.
Jonas Salk, M.D.
I developed the rubella and rotavirus vaccines while working at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Stanley Plotkin, M.D.
I worked to develop 9 of the 14 childhood vaccines that most babies get before they are 2 years old.
Maurice Hilleman, M.D.
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Vaccines are used throughout our lives to keep us healthy!
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What diseases do vaccines protect against?
DIPHTHERIA
MUMPS
RUBELLA
HEPATITIS
PERTUSSIS
TETANUS
INFLUENZA
PNEUMONIA
VARICELLA
MEASLES
POLIO
MENINGITIS
ROTAVIRUS
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Answers can be found on the inside back cover.
You received most of your vaccines when you were a baby. Have an adult help you color in which vaccines you have already gotten!
rotavirus
pneum ococc al
is B t i t a p e h DTa P
flu
polio hepatitis A Hib MMR
chickenpox 14
Can you help the little girl get to immunity by finding a path that passes each vaccine along the way? START flu polio
chickenpox
DTaP
MMR
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Diseases don’t enter communities where there are a lot of vaccinated people. So when you get vaccines, you are also helping keep diseases out of your community. Thanks for helping to keep your community safe!
The Vaccine Education Center at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia awards this
Certificate of Appreciation to
write your name here ___________________________________________
for getting your vaccines and helping keep diseases out of your community so it is safe for everyone!
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Answers to Word Unscramble on Page 4 1. HEALTHY 2. GERMS 3. VIRUS 4. BACTERIA 5. IMMUNE 6. VACCINE 7. CELL 8. SCIENCE 9. MEDICINE 10. SICK