5. To protect not just a baby's liver (which is still worth protecting) but that liver throughout that person's life, HBV vaccination at birth remains essential.
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3. HBV is not solely a sexually transmitted infection. It can also be acquired during birth and from household and daycare settings because the virus can live on surfaces in minute and invisible traces of blood.
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2. Up to 1/3 of the world's population (~2 billion people) has evidence of past or current HBV infection. Most people don't know they are a carrier until they develop liver disease.
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1. Nearly all people who acquire HBV in infancy will develop a chronic liver infection leading to liver disease such as cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma later in life.
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The most vulnerable point in the life of a liver isn't when a person is 40, 50, 60, or older. It is when they enter this world. A few facts about HBV and the birth dose vaccine (in case you hear otherwise this week):
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