Write True or False: (ii) DPT vaccine is called triple vaccine.

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Solution

True.

DPT is a combined vaccine given by injections to young babies.

It gives protection against three infectious diseases which are diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (whooping cough).

It is thus called a triple vaccine.

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