Unlike you, I don't advice from politicians and main stream media.
Nor do I selectively choose which governmental agencies, depending on the letters in charge, I believe.
- Anyone who has come in direct contact with hepatitis B virus-infected bodily fluids (blood, semen, and vaginal secretions) is at risk.
- Were born to an hepatitis B virus-infected mother
- Work or live in a place where you can be exposed to infected blood, such as a healthcare institution or correctional facility
- Have ever lived with a person infected with chronic hepatitis B virus
- Have ever had unprotected sex with an infected person
- Have ever had multiple sexual partners
- Have ever had a sexually transmitted disease
- Are a man who has sex with men
- Share needles or syringes to inject drugs, or straws to short them (even once)
- Have your blood filtered by a machine (hemodialysis) because your kidneys aren’t working
- Have ever traveled to or are born in countries where hepatitis B virus is common, including places in Africa, Central and Southeast Asia, and Eastern Europe
Can't say my newborns were EVER in danger of these situations.
And before you go squawking, they all got the Hep B vaccine in their teens.
Neither the wife nor I found it relevant or useful for our newborns, who wouldn't be in any position to contract.