Consider this:
Hepatitis B is blood borne and can only be transmitted thru body secretions like saliva, mucus, sweat, sex and blood transfusion. In several thousand studies, if you don't get hepatitis B before the age of 5 years old, you are more likely to die of other causes rather than Cancer of the liver which is the end point of Hepatitis B. Even if you are exposed to hepatitis B infected individuals at the age of 50 years old, you are less likely to die of CANCER OF THE LIVER because it takes about 25 years to 30 years for you to develop it. You have died of hypertension, heart attack or vehicular accident by the time you will have liver cancer.
Most working people who are vaccinated of Hepatitis b are way above 35 years old as a requirement of the company where they are working. And if they are hepatitis b positive, they are not accepted for employment or they are fired from their work.
Not all patients who died of cancer of the liver were Hepatitis B positive. Not all Hepatitis B positive patients who died did not have cancer of the liver.
Many young people who are hepatitis B positive are refused employment even if they are not going to work in sensitive areas like hospitals and direct contact fields.
Above all these things, there is no real treatment that could make Hepatitis B patients negative. Lamivodine and Entecavir do not bring down the quantitative level of the virus. And I know this since 1986.
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