You're wrong. This is from the Mayo Clinic website on risk factors for Hep B:
Risk factors Anyone of any age, race, nationality, sex or sexual orientation can be infected with HBV. But you're at greatest risk if you:
- Have unprotected sex with more than one partner. You're at risk whether you're heterosexual, homosexual or bisexual. Unprotected sex means having sex without using a new latex or polyurethane condom every time.
- Have unprotected sex with someone who's infected with HBV. - Have a sexually transmitted disease such as gonorrhea or chlamydia.
- Share needles during intravenous (IV) drug use.
- Share a household with someone who has a chronic HBV infection.
- Have a job that exposes you to human blood.
- Received a blood transfusion or blood products before 1972.
- Receive hemodialysis for end-stage kidney (renal) disease.
- Travel to regions with high infection rates of HBV, such as sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, the Amazon Basin, the Pacific Islands and the Middle East.
- Are an adolescent or young adult residing in a U.S. correctional facility.
In other words, the risk factors for Hepatitis B are exactly the sam as for HIV, which would exclude most school-age children. It is not passed through casual contact. The only reason for mandating all students to be vaccinated is to make it economically viable for the vaccine maker.
This is key. Anybody in health care is at risk for Hep B and Hep C. The risk is far higher than for HIV and most of us in health care are far more worried about getting hepatitis than getting AIDS. I know a couple of people who have chronic hepatitis due to occupational exposure.
This was my understanding as well. Thanks.
- Have a job that exposes you to human blood.
That would be just like school