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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