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This is verbatim from the American Academy of Pediatrics:

Hepatitis B is a viral infection that attacks the liver and can cause both acute and chronic disease. Chronic infection over the course of a lifetime can lead to liver damage, liver failure, liver cancer, or even death.

Hepatitis B is transmitted through blood or body fluids, and perinatal exposure typically occurs during labor and delivery.

Newborns can acquire hepatitis B at birth (perinatal hepatitis B) if the mother is infected with the hepatitis B virus. Administering a hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours of birth, known as a birth dose, is highly effective in preventing infection in newborns.

Adults with an infection may not be aware they carry the virus. It is highly contagious and can be transmitted while caring for an infant after birth.

A birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine and completion of the vaccines series in infancy also helps protect older infants and children from exposure to the virus by other caregivers and others, known as horizontal transmission.

Newborns respond well to a birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine, and after completing the full 3 to 4-dose vaccine series, 98% of healthy infants achieve full immunity to the virus.

Newborns infected with hepatitis B at birth and infants infected in the first year of life have a 90% chance of developing chronic hepatitis B, and 25% of those who develop chronic hepatitis B will die from the disease.

Children infected between one and five years of age have a 25-50% chance of becoming chronically infected. Twenty-five percent of children who develop a chronic hepatitis B infection will die from the disease.

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