Reading (Passage)
5.
Read the following passage carefully.
CAN THERE BE VACCINES AGAINST ALL DISEASES?
(1) Vaccination is a very important part of family

and public health. Vaccines prevent the spread of
contagious
, dangerous, and even deadly diseases
. These include measles, polio, mumps, chicken
pox, whooping cough, diphtheria and HPV*.
(2) A vaccine is a way to build up your body's natural immunity to a disease. This keeps you from
setting and spreading the disease. Vaccines provide a build-up of antibodies before you get sick.
That way, you don't have to go through the symptoms of the illness.
(3) Recently, there were reports that more children were getting measles because their parents did
not vaccinate them in time. Today, vaccines are available for many diseases such as chicken pox,
mumps and tetanus. Vaccines have saved the lives of millions since they were introduced. Small
pox was wiped out by vaccination.
(4) Vaccines are made from weakened or dead germs. These weakened or dead germs stimulate the
body to form antibodies (special proteins produced by the body to fight bacteria and viruses).
Thereafter, if the same kinds of disease germs enter our body, these antibodies attack the
invading germs and destroy them.
(5) One cannot be vaccinated against genetic disorders like haemophilia, albinism, colour
blindness, and so on, as these diseases are not caused by bacteria or viruses. Scientists have
identified more than 100 different viruses that can cause common cold, but a vaccine against
common cold will not work because a specific antibody is effective only against a specific kind of
bacterium or virus.
*HPV : Human Papilloma Virus
Source: The Hindu
On the basis of your reading of the passage, complete the following statements by filling in each blank with
one or two words only.
(a) Measles, polio, mumps, chicken pox, whooping cough, diphtheria and HPV are examples of
dangerous and deadly....
diseases i.e. diseases that spread by contact.
(b) Vaccines build up our body's natural..................... to a disease.
(c) Vaccines build
in our bodies that help us in fighting the attack of some deadly
diseases.
(I) vaccines cannot protect us against diseases that are not caused by ...........or............ .