How hepatitis B may be prevented

 
You may consider the hepatitis B vaccine. The hepatitis B vaccine is typically given as a series of three or four injections over a period of six months. Doctors say that you can’t get hepatitis B from the vaccine.
The hepatitis B vaccine is recommended for all infants, beginning at birth, all children and adolescents who weren’t vaccinated at birth and anyone being treated for a sexually transmitted infection.

Disabled people who live in an institutional setting and health care workers, emergency workers and other people who come into contact with blood on the job may get Hepatitis B.
Anyone infected with HIV, Men who have sex with men, people who have multiple sexual partners. People with chronic liver disease, People who inject illicit drugs, people who live with someone who has hepatitis B, people with end-stage kidney disease, sexual partners of someone who has hepatitis B and travelers planning to go to an area of the world with a high hepatitis.

 

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