Comment on If you work with food, how can you control yourself so you don’t eat it?
Reyali@lemmy.world 2 months agoThis is also a way hepatitis spreads.
Comment on If you work with food, how can you control yourself so you don’t eat it?
Reyali@lemmy.world 2 months agoThis is also a way hepatitis spreads.
bedwyr@piefed.ca 2 months ago
We are immunized against all the heps I think, except C. Or we were idk what you all have been up to lately. I seem to recall changing the childhood vaccines to leave out one of the hep vaccines until later if at all despite infants getting it sometimes.
Should still be reheated if you are going to eat from another’s plate that you don’t know.
Reyali@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hepatitis A vaccine was licensed in 1995, available in the US in 1996, and recommended for all US children in 2006. Hep A is the one you’re most likely to catch from sharing food.
So if children all got recommended vaccines (which sadly we know is getting less common), then ~21% of the US population should be vaccinated, plus anyone who got it before it was recommended for all.
Hepatitis B became standard for all newborns in 1991.
I’m showing my age, but I realize—even though I received all standard vaccines—it might be time to find out if I’m vaccinated against either of those.
bedwyr@piefed.ca 2 months ago
I got a Hep A vaccine well before 1995. I think all of the hep variants except for C, in the 1980s.
Maybe that’s a new version of the vaccine you are talking about.
What we didn’t get was chickenpox vaccine, our parents and schools let us get infected, not a big deal, until maybe you get old or weak and the latent virus in your nerves wakes up. No hpv vaccine either obviously.
Reyali@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m citing the CDC with the years I gave, so if you got it in the US before 1995, it would have either been a trial or unlicensed version. It was approved for use in the EU in 1991 though. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
“Hepatitis A (HepA) vaccines were first licensed for use in the United States in 1995.”
Interestingly, 1995 was the same year the chickenpox vaccine was licensed. I grew up in the “everyone gets chickenpox” days too; in fact, I caught it at only 3 weeks old from my older sister, who caught it at daycare.