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Given the recent discussion in the OccHealth jiscmail group on the need for Hep B boosters, people may be interested in the latest copy of Viral Hepatitis, published by the viral Hepatitis Prevention Board. It has several papers on the issue. The consensus view (WHO, CDC Atlanta, European Consensus Group Consensus) is, that although there's still some unanswered questions, boosters are not required in immuno-competent people who have completed a course of vaccination & had an anti-HBs level of >10 miu/ml checked 1-3 months after completing the primary course. Prof Banalava, the UK Hepatitis Guru presented the European paper. You can read it all on-line at http://www.vhpb.org/ Doubly impressive given the VHPB is funded by the vaccine companies! Dr. Alan Swann, BM, AFOM Director of Occupational Health Occupational Health Service Imperial College London Southside building South Kensington Campus London SW7 2AZ Tel: +44 (20) 7594 9385 Fax: +44 (20) 7594 9407 https://www.imperial.ac.uk/spectrum/occhealth ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please remove this footer before replying. For list archives and documents, go to http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/occ-health.html for list archives For jobs in Occupational Health, go to http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/OHJobs/