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HBV Vaccine and Immune Escape Mutants ? Vaccine works?

I was reading a interesting article dated back 2013 in China. Since they started doing vaccinations in 1992, they have seen hbv mutations escape the vaccine. Since so many chronic carriers are on NUCS and hbeag - and have mutations, will the vaccine cease to start working in the near future? For example if I carry a core promoter and precore mutation and I am in immune escape phase, will my sons vaccination work? Below is the article.

http://truthstreammedia.com/2013/10/08/chinese-mass-vaccination-campaign-has-doubled-hep-b-virus-mutations/

also below is the study that the article came from

http://www.asm.org/images/Communications/tips/2013/0913hepb.pdf

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For example if you hbeag - chronic carrier with viral load in the 100k will the vaccination work against immune escape mutants?
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Someone who is HBe- and is on nucs has very small chance to infect others because viral load is zero or close to zero.
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