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From: ray@cs.rochester.edu (Ray Frank)
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Subject: Re: Hepatitis B vaccine
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In article <39212@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Richard.DeWald@f70.n382.z1.fidonet.org (Richard DeWald) writes:

>We do have a vaccine for Hepatitis B, this may account for some of the lesser 
>attention it gets.  It is expensive, sometimes painful, and time consuming to 
>get vaccinated for Hepatitis B, though.  

I must clear up this misconception, at least from my own experience.  I wouldn't
want someone to think they shouldn't get the vaccine for the reasons stated
above.
I got the vaccine and it was neither painful nor time consuming.  It required
three visits to the doctor spaced three months and six months apart.  This
is hardly a time consuming activity.  Once there, it was a simple painless
injection into the muscle of my arm.  The only discomfort was a slight muscle
ache that lasted several hours.  But this is a small price to pay for being
protected against Hepatitis B.  I had a bout of non A-non B several years
ago and a bout of Hepatitis B might have finished me according to my doctor.

ray