HEPATITIS B VACCINE PROTECTS NEWBORNS FROM INFECTIONS
February 18, 2008
February 18, 2008
BATON ROUGE, La., Feb. 18 -- The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals issued the following press release:
The Department of Health and Hospitals immunization program urges all parents to make sure their newborn babies receive a Hepatitis B vaccine. The vaccine prevents nearly 95 percent of mother-to-child (perinatal) infections if given within 12 hours of birth. It also protects a child from getting hepatitis later in life.
In 2005, the Centers for Disease C . . .
The Department of Health and Hospitals immunization program urges all parents to make sure their newborn babies receive a Hepatitis B vaccine. The vaccine prevents nearly 95 percent of mother-to-child (perinatal) infections if given within 12 hours of birth. It also protects a child from getting hepatitis later in life.
In 2005, the Centers for Disease C . . .