Chronic infection with HBV may lead to cirrhosis, liver failure, and liver cancer. HAV infection does not lead to chronic infection or chronic liver disease.
Treatment for patients with chronic HBV infection may include interferon therapy, which reduces or eliminates the virus in some patients. Because interferon is an injectable medicine and has some potentially serious side effects, some patients may be advised to delay or avoid interferon treatment or to use one of the several oral medicines such as lamivudine, adefovir or entecavir.
Treatment is always administered and monitored by a clinician familiar with viral hepatitis. The FDA has licensed several hepatitis B vaccines for use in the United States, including several combination vaccines. It has been part of the routine childhood immunization schedule since Some parents object to vaccinating their newborns against a disease they mistakenly think is spread only via sexual contact and IV drug use. However, newborns and young children are at risk for hepatitis B infection: apart from maternal transmission of hepatitis B to a newborn, hepatitis B transmission has been reported in school and daycare settings among children.
The vaccine contains no live virus and is safe even for people with reduced immune function. Hepatitis B vaccination is recommended for all children, starting at birth in a three-dose series spread over many months. Additionally, all children and adolescents under age 19 who have not been vaccinated are recommended to receive the vaccine, as are adult populations at risk of HBV infection.
Several vaccines for hepatitis A are available in the United States, including several combination vaccines. Hepatitis vaccination is recommended at age 1, with a booster shot several months later. For those people who have not had hepatitis A and have not already been vaccinated, travel to developing countries can be a trigger for pre-departure hepatitis A vaccine.
It is important to allow at least two weeks before departure for vaccination. The benefits of a single administration of vaccine should last for several months, but getting a second dose will confer much longer term immunity.
Hepatitis A vaccination is recommended for all children at age 1 year, for persons who are at increased risk for infection, for persons who are at increased risk for complications from hepatitis A, and for any person wishing to obtain immunity. A recombinant hepatitis E vaccine was licensed in China in for use in people ages years old. It is recommended for those at high risk of hepatitis E infection. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Atkinson, W. Feigin, R. Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases , 5 th ed. Philadelphia: Saunders, Immunization Action Coalition. Unusual cases of hepatitis B virus transmission. Plotkin, S. Vaccines , 5 th ed. World Health Organization. American physician and researcher Baruch Blumberg, MD, PhD , was interested in how genes could influence susceptibility to disease. He traveled the world collecting and studying blood samples from different populations.
With a new lab technique, he matched a protein found in the blood of an Australian aborigine with an antibody in the blood of a hemophiliac from the United States.
He called the protein the "Australia antigen. Blumberg and others were able to connect the presence of the antigen with hepatitis B infection. Later they related HBV infection to liver cancer. The Australia antigen circulates in the blood of a previously infected person not only as part of HBV, but also as a small, independent particle.
The discovery of the Australia antigen had an important effect on the study of hepatitis B, in large part because HBV cannot be cultivated in the lab. The Australia antigen could, therefore, serve as a model for the virus as a whole.
Moreover, the Australia antigen provided a source for antigen for the vaccine. This hepatitis B vaccine was the first human vaccine produced by recombinant DNA methods. Researchers inserted the code for the antigen into yeast cells, which produced more of the surface protein. The yeast-derived surface protein produced immunity to the hepatitis B virus. Article Menu [ ]. Vaccine Science [ ]. In advance of the ACIP recommendations, stories appeared in the media portraying Hepatitis B as a deadly disease that was rampant in the United States.
News sources were reporting hepatitis B was spreading quickly and everyone was at risk of infection from over 1. These media reports generated by the CDC used hepatitis B disease statistics that were not anchored in documented fact but are still used today to promote mass hepatitis B vaccination.
Most of the inflated disease statistics originate with statements generated by officials at the Centers for Disease Control. Both Recombivax HB 17 and Engerix-B 18 vaccines originally contained the mercury preservative, thimerosal, which is used to prevent bacterial contamination of inactivated vaccines, particularly vaccines packaged in multi-dose vials.
Public Health Service and vaccine manufacturers published a joint statement on July 9, calling for the removal of thimerosal from childhood vaccines. VAXELIS, approved for use in infants and children between 6 weeks and 4 years of age and recommended to be administered at 2, 4, and 6 months of age, is expected to become available for use in the United States in Recommendations for vaccination are made by federal health officials at the CDC, but legal requirements for admission to daycare and schools are made by health officials in health departments in each individual state.
When federal health officials set the goal of achieving a percent vaccination rate in the U. During the past 70 years, many state legislatures have turned over the power to mandate vaccines to state health department officials, and rarely do state legislators take a vote to approve the mandating of a new vaccine, such as hepatitis B vaccine.
Following the CDC recommendation for universal use of hepatitis B vaccine by all children, 25 state health department officials began issuing mandates requiring children to show proof they have received three doses of hepatitis B vaccine in order to attend daycare or school. By the end of , 35 states had regulations on the books requiring children to get three doses of hepatitis B vaccine, 26 yet only 15 states had passed laws requiring prenatal screening of pregnant mothers for hepatitis B infection.
As of , 47 states and Washington, D. In October , the CDC published its annual vaccine report on vaccination rates of infants, children and adults and reported that While vaccination rates for infants, children and adolescents is estimated at over 91 percent, in , just over 24 percent of adults had received all three doses of the hepatitis B vaccine. Adults aged 19 to 49, considered to be most at risk for developing hepatitis B, have a vaccination rate of 32 percent.
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