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Paper I — 2025 August (Supplementary) (2010 Scheme) — Q8

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2025 August (Supplementary) (2010 Scheme) · 40 marks · 120 min

Question

Name any TWO live vaccines

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Answer

Two examples of live (attenuated) vaccines:

  1. BCG (Bacille Calmette-Guérin) vaccine — live attenuated Mycobacterium bovis, protecting against severe childhood forms of tuberculosis.
  2. Oral polio vaccine (OPV) — live attenuated poliovirus, inducing both systemic and mucosal (intestinal IgA) immunity.

(Other valid examples: MMR vaccine, varicella vaccine, yellow fever vaccine, oral typhoid vaccine Ty21a.)

  1. 1Vaccines and Immunoprophylaxis

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