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Is hep B vaccine for lifetime?

I had hep B vaccine about 6 or 7 years ago. When I asked the nurse who gave me vaccine shots, how long time will the vaccine protect me? She said 'lifetime'. Is it true?
If not lifetime, then how long time?
Thanks.
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no it is not true the current hbv vaccine is very badly designed with just the hbsag part of the virus which is weakly immunogenic, it fails in a good percentage of people and hbsab antibody can be lost after about 10 years, you better check hbsab levels and if less than 10miu/ml have another round of vaccine
if you never checked hbsab you can fall in the 10% (about dont remember exact number) of non responders to vaccine

the best hbv vaccine is sold in israel pharmacies and produced there, it has all 3 hbsag types of hbv and much more immunogenic, 98% of responders
http://scigenil.com/
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Thank you very much!
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