A vaccine against HBV (Hepatitis B virus)
can’t make you HBVag negative. Vaccines
serve to prevent infection not to cure
someone who is already infected. If he was
infected with HBV in the past there are 3
possibilities:
1. To become a carrier (2%);
2. To overcome the infection and become
immune to further infections with HBV
(90%);
3. To become chronically infected with HBV
(8%).
Only in the second case can a person who
was “positive” to HBV become
“negative” after overcoming the
infection.
Carriers, acute and chronically ill people
can transmit the HBV to other people.
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