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Hepatitis B Virus Vaccines
Studies conducted at Fooyin University, Department of Laboratory Medicine on hepatitis B virus vaccines recently published
April 19th, 2008
Fresh data on hepatitis B virus are presented in the report 'Hepatitis B virus infection among pregnant women in Taiwan: comparison between women born in Taiwan and other southeast countries.' "Taiwan's national vaccination program has successfully decreased the prevalence of hepatitis B infection after twenty years of implementation and might be indirectly beneficial to the second generation. In this study, we compared the hepatitis B infection status of two groups: pregnant Taiwanese women and other Southeast Asian women, who because they had immigrated later in life to Taiwan by marriage to a Taiwanese man, had not been exposed to that vaccination program to evaluate the effect of...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2008-04-19)
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