Immunization

Hepatitis B Vaccination Prevents Infection in Thousands of Children Annually

Published in Vaccine Weekly, June 28th, 2000

Thousands of U.S. children would be infected with hepatitis B virus (HBV) each year if they did not receive vaccination for the illness as infants, a recent study concludes.

To determine the prevalence of HBV infection among children born in the U.S. before the 1991 recommendation for routine infant hepatitis B immunization, G.L. Armstrong and colleagues from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, designed models of HBV infection based on National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES II and III) for non-Asians and on sero-surveys for Asian-Americans. Two of the sero-surveys assessed children born to HGsAg-negative women. ...

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