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Hepatitis A is the one you hear about when it strikes at restaurants, picnics or other large gatherings. Neither blood borne nor generally fatal, it's easily transmitted by an infected food handler. Washing your hands after going to the bathroom and before eating can help prevent its spread. There...
Hepatitis B is not so easy to catch, but it's still serious. Each year it kills about 5,000 Americans, and many thousands more develop a chronic infection that in some cases will trigger liver cancer or other problems. The hepatitis-B virus is generally transmitted in utero from...
Hepatitis C, like hepatitis B, seems to be transmitted most often through sexual contact or tainted blood. Hepatitis C, however, is much more likely to lead to serious complications. No vaccine is available, but last week researchers in Germany reported that giving interferon at the earliest stages of a hepatitis...
What we really need is a new vaccine that requires fewer doses, and works more quickly. Nothing?s in the works right now, but it?s certainly something the government should think about.
The existing vaccine is not really effective for civilians in any case. It requires six doses over sixteen months in order for it to work, and that kind of schedule isn?t really workable for the general public - unless you had an extreme risk of exposure, and you knew about...