MIC 130 UPDATED MAIN EOC EXAM 2 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Renewal of Vaccine Assistance Act in 1965 had what provisions? - ✔✔mandate
school age kids for vaccination
-new borns
-collecting information
✔✔What was the controversy surrounding Swine Flu? - ✔✔An army recruit died of a
new strain in early 1976
Fearing a pandemic, a massive vaccine production campaign was funded
1 in 100,000 of those receiving the vaccine contracted Guillain-Barre syndrome
Outbreak never happened
✔✔What happened in the U. K. in 1974 pertaining to vaccination? - ✔✔Scientific article
printed
-stated that ~30 kids had adverse reaction (strong neurological complication, seizures)
to DTP vaccine
-1974, 80% of kids vaccinated with DTP vaccine
-1977, 30% of kids vaccinated with DTP vaccine
-1978-1979, pertussis outbreak in U.K.
-affected 100,000 children ~ 30 kids died
, ✔✔What were the consequences of Swine Flu? - ✔✔Government had to insure the
vaccine
Pharmaceutical companies began pulling out of vaccine production - due to lack of
profitability and liability issues (went from 12 -> 6)
One company for polio, one for measles (less production)
1977: Review of vaccination program - Dealt with legal, ethical and political issues
✔✔After Swine Flu, goals were set in 1977 that included what? - ✔✔: insurer of
vaccines (funds), collect data/information about vaccines, maintain an adequate supply,
insure the safety/efficacy of vaccines
✔✔Significance of "Vaccine Roulette" - ✔✔reported adverse side effects of Pertussis
(whooping cough) vaccination (in DPT vaccine)
-brought Dissatisfied Parents Together, and the beginning of the modern anti-vaccine
movement
✔✔Who is Dissatisfied Parents Together? - ✔✔-National Vaccine Information Center
-Parents agains vaccines
✔✔What infectious disease was discussed by Jon Stewart and Bill Maher? - ✔✔they
talked about how vaccination should be done and it is dumb to not vaccinate
✔✔What were the provisions of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury ACT OF 1986? -
✔✔Written in collaboration with DPT group and American Association of Pediatricians
Created
Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) http://vaers.hhs.gov/ (for
surveillance)
National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program
Vaccine Court (up to $250,000 compensation)
Institute of Medicine to review safety of all vaccines
✔✔Why did President Reagan object to the Act? - ✔✔Reagan was mad because it
brought a tax on vaccines
✔✔What is the Vaccine Court? - ✔✔up to $250,000 compensation
✔✔What were the provisions of the Comprehensive Childhood Immunization Act
passed in 1993? - ✔✔-provide vaccines for all kids on Medicaid or lacking health care
✔✔Significance of Hannah Bruesewitz? - ✔✔Went against the Supreme Court and they
decided the vaccine did not cause a problem
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Renewal of Vaccine Assistance Act in 1965 had what provisions? - ✔✔mandate
school age kids for vaccination
-new borns
-collecting information
✔✔What was the controversy surrounding Swine Flu? - ✔✔An army recruit died of a
new strain in early 1976
Fearing a pandemic, a massive vaccine production campaign was funded
1 in 100,000 of those receiving the vaccine contracted Guillain-Barre syndrome
Outbreak never happened
✔✔What happened in the U. K. in 1974 pertaining to vaccination? - ✔✔Scientific article
printed
-stated that ~30 kids had adverse reaction (strong neurological complication, seizures)
to DTP vaccine
-1974, 80% of kids vaccinated with DTP vaccine
-1977, 30% of kids vaccinated with DTP vaccine
-1978-1979, pertussis outbreak in U.K.
-affected 100,000 children ~ 30 kids died
, ✔✔What were the consequences of Swine Flu? - ✔✔Government had to insure the
vaccine
Pharmaceutical companies began pulling out of vaccine production - due to lack of
profitability and liability issues (went from 12 -> 6)
One company for polio, one for measles (less production)
1977: Review of vaccination program - Dealt with legal, ethical and political issues
✔✔After Swine Flu, goals were set in 1977 that included what? - ✔✔: insurer of
vaccines (funds), collect data/information about vaccines, maintain an adequate supply,
insure the safety/efficacy of vaccines
✔✔Significance of "Vaccine Roulette" - ✔✔reported adverse side effects of Pertussis
(whooping cough) vaccination (in DPT vaccine)
-brought Dissatisfied Parents Together, and the beginning of the modern anti-vaccine
movement
✔✔Who is Dissatisfied Parents Together? - ✔✔-National Vaccine Information Center
-Parents agains vaccines
✔✔What infectious disease was discussed by Jon Stewart and Bill Maher? - ✔✔they
talked about how vaccination should be done and it is dumb to not vaccinate
✔✔What were the provisions of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury ACT OF 1986? -
✔✔Written in collaboration with DPT group and American Association of Pediatricians
Created
Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) http://vaers.hhs.gov/ (for
surveillance)
National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program
Vaccine Court (up to $250,000 compensation)
Institute of Medicine to review safety of all vaccines
✔✔Why did President Reagan object to the Act? - ✔✔Reagan was mad because it
brought a tax on vaccines
✔✔What is the Vaccine Court? - ✔✔up to $250,000 compensation
✔✔What were the provisions of the Comprehensive Childhood Immunization Act
passed in 1993? - ✔✔-provide vaccines for all kids on Medicaid or lacking health care
✔✔Significance of Hannah Bruesewitz? - ✔✔Went against the Supreme Court and they
decided the vaccine did not cause a problem
