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CDC Says Seventy Percent of HCW's Vaccinated Against Hepatitis B

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, June 17th, 1996

A dramatic drop in hepatitis B-related illness among healthcare workers during the past decade proves that vaccination efforts are working, an official with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said.

During the mid-1980's the incidence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection was significantly higher among healthcare workers than among the general population, but in 1994 hepatitis B among this group actually dropped below the national average and has stayed there.

"Close to 70 percent of hospital-based healthcare workers have had the hepatitis B vaccination series," Miriam Alter of the CDC told Hepatitis Weekly. "While that is good,...

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Source: Hepatitis Weekly (1996-06-17)

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