At the end of this activity, students should be able to define the terms "epidemic" and "pandemic”, give examples of epidemic chains and methods of breaking them, describe the significance of the discoveries by Jenner and Pasteur in the development of vaccinations, explain how active immunity is produced by vaccination, state the difference between preventive vaccination and therapeutic vaccination, explain the significance of vaccinations in the fight against infectious diseases, and justify the need for the administration of preventive vaccinations.

Originally released by Learnetic, 2016.