According to the CDC, ʺThe best way to prevent hepatitis B is to get vaccinated.ʺ The vaccine is available to adults as well as children. The vaccine is given in three doses over a six month period. For more information on hepatitis B, the CDC offers a free PDF ʺcheat sheet...
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A situation that may put babies born to hepatitis B infected mothers to a high risk of acquiring HBV infection especially in Ghana where up to about 16 % of pregnant women are documented to be HBsAg positive [11, 12]. Notwithstanding, CDC recommends that breastfeeding of infant should not ...
The CDC provides the following tools. Resources on hepatitis B for professionals (https://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis/hbv/profresourcesb.htm) A fact sheet on interpretation of hepatitis B serologic tests (https://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis/hbv/pdfs/serologicchartv8.pdf) Information about HBV prevention,...
(CDC). Paradoxically, the CDC's ownFact Sheeton the Hepatitis B disease does not include newborn babies as a risk group for that disease. That Fact Sheet lists the risk groups as injection drug users, homosexual men, sexually active heterosexuals, infants/children of immigrants from disease-...
As hepatitis C is a category B statutory infectious disease, cases of hepatitis C are reported online by health facilities and CDCs depending on the route of detection (direct online reporting started in 2004), with the China CDC handling the major outbreaks [10]. Since 2010, China has ...