California’s deadly hepatitis A outbreak could last years, official says

Re:California’s deadly hepatitis A outbreak could last years... by Filligree on Friday October 06, 2017 @09:12AM (#15416491)

That was also the case in Norway. It just wasn't automatic.

The risk was really tiny anyway. Even if you did get infected, it was unlikely to cause any damage.

But going from other comments in the thread it's not the same vaccine that is used today, so I expect they fixed the problem.

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Re:California’s deadly hepatitis A outbreak could last years... by Xylakant on Friday October 06, 2017 @10:27AM (#15417020)

I’d be surprised if it was a live vaccine, due to a medical condition I usually don’t get them. And Wikipedia to the rescue https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatitis_A_vaccine, it’s inactivated virus cultures.

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Re:California’s deadly hepatitis A outbreak could last years... by Filligree on Friday October 06, 2017 @11:05AM (#15417326)

Same page says one of the ones still in use is in fact attenuated live virus. I'm not remotely surprised it's not commonly in use in the west, though.

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