once vaccinated from hepatitis. Years later can your test results show that you have the virus hepatitis?

Question

can a person not have hepatitis but because of the vaccine the test results show posative for the virus?

Answer 1

Hep B Vaccination Can Mean A Positive Hep B Blood Test - A little known fact about hepatitis B vaccine is that those who are vaccinated can test positive for hepatitis B on some routine blood tests. NVIC has received calls from adults who report that, after getting hepatitis B vaccine, they are testing positive for hepatitis B when they undergo routine blood tests in doctor's offices. The Red Cross maintains that more sensitive lab tests used by blood banks can differentiate between hepatitis B antibodies produced by disease and those produced by the vaccine.

HIV vaccines now being tested in humans also produce positive tests for HIV. As noted in a September 1997 Washington Post article about HIV vaccine trials: "Foremost among the worries of many would-be volunteers is the problem of forever testing positive for AIDS antibodies...although sophisticated laboratory tests can usually tell the difference between AIDS antibodies caused by a vaccine and those that indicate a real HIV infection, few laboratories are equipped to make that distinction. Moreover, as vaccines get better by more closely mimicking the real infection, it will become more difficult to distinguish between the two."

Answer 2

If you were vaccinated against Hepatitis virus (there are vaccines against Hepatitis A and B, I don't know if there are any for C) your blood will be positive for Hepatitis "Antibody" but not positive for Hepatitis "Antigen" (there are several antigens that may appear during active viral infection).

Absence of Hepatitis Antigen means you do not have an active infection.

That is a good thing because you are not likely to have the serious late effects of chronic active Hepatitis B or Hepatitis C are scarring of the liver (cirrhosis) or less likely liver cell cancer (more likely with untreated Hepatitis C).

If you are Hepatitis Antibody positive and cannot remember if you got the vaccine or not, it could be you did or that you had a mild case of Hepatitis and beat it, leaving you with antibody and no antigen.

Answer 3

What is chronic viral hepatitis?

Patients infected with hepatitis B and hepatitis C can develop chronic hepatitis. Doctors define chronic hepatitis as hepatitis that lasts longer than 6 months. In chronic hepatitis, the viruses live and multiply in the liver for years or decades. For unknown reasons, these patients’ immune systems are unable to eradicate the viruses. The viruses cause chronic inflammation of the liver. Chronic hepatitis can lead to the development over time of extensive liver scarring (cirrhosis), liver failure, and liver cancer. Liver failure from chronic hepatitis C infection is the most common reason for liver transplantation in the United States. Patients with chronic viral hepatitis can transmit the infection to others.

Answer 4

No. The vaccine is genetically- engineered. It will give you antibodies, not antigen. The vaccination may be unsuccessful, so that you can acquire the virus later, or you may have been positive for the virus before being vaccinated.

Answer 5

there is not any vaccine for hepatitis C. If checks effects educate you've hep C, then you extremely have hep C. in case you had a Hepatitis B vaccine, you should produce a pretend efficient for Hep B, no longer Hep C.

Answer 6

any vaccine helps the body to fight the virus but it does not guarantee a hundred percent protection from the virus. you may still contract the disease if your immune system weakens or if you engage in activities which predisposes you to be more vulnerable to the disease such as having sex or using drugs