Vaccination can be a lifesaver if an epidemic is raging, but in this case the risk of vaccination outweighs the risk of infants getting the disease. Surely, the hepatitis B vaccine doesn't injure every child that gets it, but in some unknown number of cases, it appears to be a death ...
Since 1995, the three, respectively four-dose (depending on the vaccine used) HBV vaccination in early infancy (0 to 14 months) and catch-up vaccination in non-vaccinated adolescents up to 18 years is recommended in the national immunisation schedule by theGerman Standing Committee on Vacci...
Prevalence of HBsAg, knowledge, and vaccination practice against viral hepatitis B infection among doctors and nurses in a secondary health care facility i... Hepatitis B Virus, a highly infectious blood-borne virus poses a major threat to public health globally due to its high prevalence rate an...
My 5-week old daughter, Lyla Rose, died within 16 hours of her hepatitisB vaccination, which she received because of the universal vaccination policy this Committee instituted in 1991. At her death, Lyla had four of the eight highest-reported symptoms in the VAERS hepatitis B vaccine adverse ...
Hepatitis B vaccination among high-risk adolescents and adults—San Diego, California, 1998–2001. MMWR, 51, 618–621. Google Scholar CDC. (2002c). Substance abuse treatment and public health: Working together to benefit injection drug users. [Fact sheet series]. US Department of Health and...
Sub-Saharan Africa continues with very low hepatitis B (HBV) birth dose vaccination coverage. To guide policy on HBV vaccine for newborns, we explored perceptions, barriers and preferences of pregnant women regarding HBV and the HBV birth dose vaccination Methods We conducted eight focus groups disc...
Nabi-HB [Hepatitis B Immune Globulin (Human)], must be administered only intramuscularly for post-exposure prophylaxis. Vaccination with live virus vaccines (e.g., MMR) should be deferred until approximately three months after administration of Nabi-HB. ...
Hepatitis B vaccination status and associated factors among students of medicine and health sciences in Wolkite University, Southwest Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study. PLoS ONE. 2021;16(9):e0257621. Article PubMed PubMed Central CAS Google Scholar Wagnew F, Dejenu G, Eshetie S, Alebel A...
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, vaccination, transmission, screening, cou...
HepB vaccination coverage remained consistently high (> 99.50%). However, only 7904 (59.96%) underwent PVST. Among the 2408 high risk infants for MTCT, only 1352 (56.15%) underwent PVST, with no significant trend difference over the years (P = 0.155) (Table 4). Table 4 Trends ...