Multiple choice

Which of the following is an inactivated vaccine?

  1. Yellow fever vaccine

  2. Mumps vaccine

  3. BCG

  4. Rabies vaccine

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D Correct answer
Explanation

Antirabies vaccine – They are of two types: neural vaccines and nonneural vaccines. Semple vaccine is most widely used vaccine and it consists of 5% suspension of sheep brain infected with fixed virus and which is inactivated by phenol. BPL vaccine is a modification of semple vaccine in which B-propiolactone is used as an inactivating agent.