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Listen to “VEC Vaccine Notes,” a video and podcast series presented by the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Each episode offers vaccine information in a convenient format, so families have the answers they need to make informed decisions, including details and context that addresses what they may have heard in the news or in conversation with others.
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Wednesday Oct 15, 2025
Wednesday Oct 15, 2025
Charlotte Moser, Co-Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, talks about hepatitis B and the vaccines that protect against it. She addresses common questions and discusses the relative risks and benefits of the disease and vaccines.
Find out:
- Why hepatitis B is called the “silent epidemic”
- How many people die annually from hepatitis B
- Two factors at the heart of spread of this virus
- Ways people have been exposed to hepatitis B that are not commonly considered
- Why targeting high-risk groups didn’t work to stop this virus
- What makes hepatitis B more infectious than HIV
- What percent of people don’t know they have a chronic hepatitis B infection
- The history of the two vaccine platforms used to make hepatitis B vaccine
- Whether an extra dose of hepatitis B vaccine is harmful
- What is recommended when people do not respond to the vaccine
- Why current antiviral medications are only so effective against this infection
To learn more about diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis and the vaccines that prevent these infections, please visit https://bit.ly/vec-hepb.
Questions? Submit the VEC Vaccine Notes form, https://bit.ly/contact-vec-vaccine-notes.
For other vaccines, diseases or general questions about vaccines, check out https://vaccine.chop.edu.
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