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Yes, he will. The hepatits B vax that they give infants is to prevent a sexually transmitted disease. I didn’t give him a choice in that one. It’s routine.From the centers for disease control:Hep B can be spread by everyday contact, the HPV in the vaccines is only spread by sex. There are several hundred sprains of HPV and only 4 are protected by the vax. Of those 4, only 2 cause cervical cancer.
Your son won’t have to recieve a vax that protects him against a disease he can only catch by having sex. The vaxs he recieves protects him from diseases that can be passed by everyday contact. If the HPV that causes cervical cancer could be passed by everyday contact, I wouldn’t be opposed to it.
HBV is spread when blood from an infected person enters the body of a person who is not infected. For example, HBV is spread through having sex with an infected person without using a condom (the efficacy of latex condoms in preventing infection with HBV is unknown, but their proper use might reduce transmission), by sharing drugs, needles, or “works” when “shooting” drugs, through needlesticks or sharps exposures on the job, or from an infected mother to her baby during birth.
Hepatitis B is not spread through food or water, sharing eating utensils, breastfeeding, hugging, kissing, coughing, sneezing or by casual contact.