US model study suggests a targeted hepatitis B birth-dose strategy could increase neonatal infections unless screening and vaccination remain high.
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What is the risk of developing incurable chronic hepatitis B in Canada? It depends in part on the province where you are born. The hepatitis B vaccine, marketed since the 1980s, was the very first cancer vaccine: it offers protection against a virus that is the leading cause of liver cancer worldwide. By the time I started high school, all Canadian provinces and territories had already established hepatitis B vaccination programs for students. T…