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  • Reyali@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•If you work with food, how can you control yourself so you don’t eat it?
    6 days

    I’m citing the CDC with the years I gave, so if you got it in the US before 1995, it would have either been a trial or unlicensed version. It was approved for use in the EU in 1991 though. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    “Hepatitis A (HepA) vaccines were first licensed for use in the United States in 1995.”

    Interestingly, 1995 was the same year the chickenpox vaccine was licensed. I grew up in the “everyone gets chickenpox” days too; in fact, I caught it at only 3 weeks old from my older sister, who caught it at daycare.

  • Reyali@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•If you work with food, how can you control yourself so you don’t eat it?
    7 days

    Hepatitis A vaccine was licensed in 1995, available in the US in 1996, and recommended for all US children in 2006. Hep A is the one you’re most likely to catch from sharing food.

    So if children all got recommended vaccines (which sadly we know is getting less common), then ~21% of the US population should be vaccinated, plus anyone who got it before it was recommended for all.

    Hepatitis B became standard for all newborns in 1991.

    I’m showing my age, but I realize—even though I received all standard vaccines—it might be time to find out if I’m vaccinated against either of those.