Vaccination Tames Hepatitis A Infection

July 12 (HealthDay News) -- Vaccinating children, especially young ones, can dramatically decrease the incidence of hepatitis A infections.

Two new studies -- one from Israel, the other from the United States -- found that childhood vaccination programs could reduce the incidence of disease by as much as 98 percent.

"Hepatitis A disease can be rapidly controlled by vaccination," said Dr. Ron Dagan, one of the Israeli study's authors and director of the pediatric infectious disease unit at Soroka Medical Center at Ben Gurion University in Beer-Sheva, Israel.

"By vaccinating kids, we've dropped the incidence from 10 per 100,000 to two per 100,000, which is a remarkable achievement