My Vaccine Activity Book

My Vaccine Activity Book

Your name here: _____________________________________ 1

Sometimes, germs like bacteria and viruses get inside us and make us sick!

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Our immune system helps us get better from most of these, but sometimes these diseases can make us VERY sick.

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Can you unscramble these letters to find the words?

1. AEYHTLH _________________________________________ 2. EGRSM ___________________________________________ 3. SRIVU ____________________________________________ 4. TBIECRAA ________________________________________ 5. NUIEMM __________________________________________ 6. AICCNEV _________________________________________ 7. ECLL _____________________________________________ 8. IEENSCC _________________________________________ 9. CIMNIEDE ________________________________________ 10. ISKC _____________________________________________ Answers can be found on the inside back cover.

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Long ago, scientists figured out ways to protect us from some of the diseases that make us sick. They discovered VACCINES!

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Let’s take a look at how vaccines work.

Sometimes people get sick, but not too sick. BUT, for some people the disease makes them VERY sick.

Either way, both people are protected from getting the sickness again. This is called “immunity.”

With a vaccine, you can get immunity without getting sick at all.

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Vaccines give us immunity from certain diseases. See what words you can make using the letters from the words:

Vaccines = Immunity __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

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Edward Jenner and Smallpox

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

IMMUNITY! 15

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

Answers to Find-A-Word on Page 13

This book is produced by the Vaccine Education Center and the Marketing & Public Relations Department at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Scientist illustrations ©Tim Song.

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