Hepatitis B - VEC Vaccine Notes | Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Charlotte Moser, Co-Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, talks about hepatitis B and the vaccines that protect against it. She addresses common questions and discusses the relative risks and benefits of the disease and vaccines.

Find out:

- Why hepatitis B is called the “silent epidemic”

- How many people die annually from hepatitis B

- Two factors at the heart of spread of this virus

- Ways people have been exposed to hepatitis B that are not commonly considered

- Why targeting high-risk groups didn’t work to stop this virus

- What makes hepatitis B more infectious than HIV

- What percent of people don’t know they have a chronic hepatitis B infection

- The history of the two vaccine platforms used to make hepatitis B vaccine

- Whether an extra dose of hepatitis B vaccine is harmful

- What is recommended when people do not respond to the vaccine

- Why current antiviral medications are only so effective against this infection

 

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