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Hepatitis B Immunizations

Programs that provide inoculations that protect at risk populations including homosexual men, injecting and non-injecting drug users, health care workers and sexually active heterosexuals who have multiple sex partners from contracting hepatitis B, an inflammation of the liver. Hepatitis B vaccine is also recommended for all adolescents who may not have received it during infancy or childhood. The vaccine is administered in a three-dose regimen over a period of six months.

Taxonomy Code: LT-340.010-30

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