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Vaccines against hepatitis B have been shown to be protective and can control the disease much more effectively than hygienic measures. When vaccination failure is reported, it is the strategy that has failed - not the vaccine.
Most countries in northern and western Europe belong to areas with a low endemicity of hepatitis B virus (HBV). When HBV vaccines became available, these countries adopted a vaccination strategy that targeted groups at high risk of hepatitis B. However, it became obvious that this strategy, despite giving good protection to those who had been vaccinated, had largely failed. This was firstly because,...
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