My VaccineActivity Book

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My VaccineActivity Book

Your name here: _____________________________________

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

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Our immune system helps us get better frommost 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 _____________________________________________

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Answers can be found on the inside back cover.

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:

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Edward Jenner and Smallpox

Edward Jenner

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I created the first vaccine, called the smallpox vaccine, thanks to the help of a cow and a milkmaid!

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 ofthe 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.

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.

I developed the rubella and rotavirus vaccines while working at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

I worked to develop 9 of the 14 childhood vaccines that most babies get before they are 2 years old.

Maurice Hilleman, M.D.

Jonas Salk, M.D.

Stanley Plotkin, M.D.

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Vaccines are used throughout our lives to keep us healthy!

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DIPHTHERIA

HEPATITIS

INFLUENZA

MEASLES

MENINGITIS

MUMPS

PERTUSSIS

PNEUMONIA

POLIO

ROTAVIRUS

RUBELLA

TETANUS

VARICELLA

What diseases do vaccines protect against?

Answers can be found on the inside back cover.

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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

DTaP

pneumococcal

polio

hepatitis B

flu

MMR

hepatitis A

chickenpox

Hib

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Can you help the little girl get to immunity by findinga path that passes each vaccine along the way?

IMMUNITY!

flu

polio

chickenpox

DTaP

MMR

START

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The Vaccine Education Center atThe Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

awards this

Certificate of Appreciationto

write your name here___________________________________________

for getting your vaccines and helping keep diseases outof your community so it is safe for everyone!

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!

Answers toWord Unscramble

on Page 41. HEALTHY2. GERMS3. VIRUS4. BACTERIA5. IMMUNE6. VACCINE7. CELL 8. SCIENCE9. MEDICINE10. SICK

Answers toFind-A-Wordon Page 13

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This book is produced by theVaccine Education Center and the

Marketing & Public Relations Department atThe Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Scientist illustrations ©Tim Song.