VBI Vaccines announces PreHevbri is now available in the United Kingdom for the prevention of hepatitis B in adults

VBI Vaccines Inc. announced that PreHevbri [Hepatitis B vaccine (recombinant, adsorbed)] is now available in the United Kingdom for active immunization against infection caused by all known subtypes of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) in adults. It can be expected that hepatitis D will also be prevented by immunization with PreHevbri as hepatitis D (caused by the delta agent) does […]

Mothers transmitting hepatitis B to children as broken hospital procedures plague Europe

Procedures to prevent the direct transmission of hepatitis B virus (HBV) from mother to child, particularly during and after pregnancy, have significant fragmentation and gaps, a new survey presented at the 6th World Congress of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition has shown. The results, based on 76 delivery hospitals from ten major European countries*, identified significant variances in maternal HBV […]