Các Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) recently published an article outlining the importance of hepatitis B vaccination. Key points include:
- hepatitis B virus and its proteins can be transmitted in amounts of blood not detectable to the naked eye and the virus can live for up to 7 days on surfaces and objects; this means it can be transmitted in unexpected ways
- babies infected early in life – whether through undiagnosed hepatitis B in their mother or unwitting exposure to infected blood – often develop chronic, undiagnosed hepatitis B which they then continue to spread
- hepatitis B vaccines are safe and they work.
Read the full article here
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