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Around 5% of adults and 90% of babies who contract hepatitis B go on to have life-long infection that can only be managed with regular medication. Ronald Rampsch/Shutterstock

We have a vaccine for hepatitis B but here’s why we still need a cure

Peter Revill, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity and Margaret Littlejohn, Melbourne Health

Babies in Australia have been vaccinated against hepatitis B since May 2000, but 240,000 Australians still live with the disease.

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