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Reyali@lemmy.world 1 week agoHepatitis 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 1 week 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 1 week 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.