Infants who receive Hep B will go on to never develop it and we could eradicate the disease ultimately.
Many adults will clear Hepatitis B, but the rate of chronic infection, cirrhosis, and liver injury are very high amongst infants, something like 80-90%.
Thusly, the basis for Hep B vaccine early on is very solid and the vaccine is very well tolerated.
I swear, I want to vivisect the next person who says, "Hep B is an STD and babies don't have sex!"
Uh...these are the SAME PEOPLE who tell me Bill Clinton had sex with 12-year-old girls at Epstein Island. Don't they want these innocents protected from catching Hep B by a clearly very sexually active Bill Clinton?
Or the child rapists, don't you at least want the protection?
"Well, I didn't get a Hep B shot until I went into the medical field."
I know, and your grandmother didn't take oral contraceptives for similar reasons.
