Published in Vaccine Weekly, May 26th, 1997 Hepatitis B virus
infection (HBV) incidence generally remained static from 1990 to
1994 with an average of 2,868 cases annually and average
infection rate of 10.3 cases per 100,000 annually. According to
the Canada Communicable Disease Report (Tepper, "Acute Hepatitis
B Incidence in Canada." 23;7) cases in men occurred at a higher
crude rate (12.2 per 100,000) than in women (8.8 per 100,000)
during this time period, and infection rates were... Want to see
the full article? Welcome to NewsRx! Learn more about a six-
week, no-risk free trial of Vaccine Weekly