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Molly Maloof, MD

Director of Clinical Content
@DoctorBase

MS and Hepatitis B Vaccine

I'm interested in getting the Hepatitis B vaccine. My father has MS. Should I NOT get the vaccine because of this?
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I think it is reasonable to go ahead and get a hepatitis B vaccination. I think the risk of acquiring hepatitis B is for most people higher than the risk of it triggering MS if you have no history of MS yourself (even with your father's history).

See the following article from the "national center for immunization" at

which in part says " the weight of all the currently available scientific

evidence shows no association between hepatitis B

vaccine and multiple sclerosis. Concern about hepatitis B

vaccination arose from France in the mid 1990s.

Following a mass hepatitis B vaccination program in

France there were reports of MS developing in some

patients a few weeks after receiving the vaccine. In 1998,

the French government stopped the school-based hepatitis

B component of the vaccination program while they

investigated a possible relationship between hepatitis B

vaccine and demyelinating disease. When studies of the

French vaccine recipients were completed they showed

that there was not a significant increase in the number of

vaccinated people who developed MS as compared with

those who had never received hepatitis B vaccine. Since

that time, there have been more than seven published

studies that have consistently shown no association

between receipt of hepatitis B vaccine and MS. Some of

the other findings that support this include:

• A study in British Columbia, Canada, that investigated

multiple sclerosis in 578,308 adolescents over an 8-year

period before and after a hepatitis B vaccination

program was begun showed no evidence of a link

between hepatitis B vaccination and multiple sclerosis

or other demyelinating disease.

• A study in 2001 of 192 women with MS and 645

control patients who did not have MS showed no

increased risk of MS in those who received hepatitis B

vaccine.

• Another study in 2001 looked at hepatitis B, tetanus,

and influenza vaccines in patients with MS, and showed

no evidence of these vaccines being associated with MS

relapses (worsening of MS symptoms).

• A study in the United States of over 1,400 participants

did not show any association between hepatitis B

vaccination and MS or other types of demyelinating

disease.

• Mass immunisation programs with hepatitis B vaccine

in New Zealand, Taiwan and Alaska have not resulted

in any serious adverse events or illnesses suggestive of

MS.

• Extensive pre-licensure clinical trials of hepatitis B

vaccine did not document MS as a side-effect. "

Always consult with your own physician. For what it's worth, I've had the Hepatitis B vaccine myself, which I think is a good idea for anyone in the medical profession or otherwise potentially exposed to Hepatitis B

K Holmes