Should Newborns Get Hepatitis B Vaccine?

baby-sleeping-baby-baby-girl.jpg      Hepatitis B is an infection which attacks the liver cells and causes scarring of the organ, liver failure, and cancer. This infection is transmitted sexually or by blood. Currently, most newborns are vaccinated with Hepatitis B a few days after birth in the united States. Parents often wonder what is the point of vaccinating babies against  disease that seems to concern only adults.  This vaccine has been mistakenly suspected of causing cases of multiple sclerosis which disease attacks the nerve fibers, and those of infants are very few.

In addition, the health care corporation argue that age has an influence on the efficacy of the vaccine. And more and more experts are convinced that after a complete vaccination of the infant, a life time protection against Hepatitis B is maintained even if the antibody rate decreases with time.

 

By Sarah Nsingi Mbemba

 

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