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There are > 800.000 yearly deaths due to hep b. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatitis_B https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatitis_B Yes, there is an effective

• chimeracoder 4mo ago
  > Yes, there is an effective vaccine but not everyone has access to it for tons of reasons. Also, about 3.5% of the world's population already has it. That's about 300 million people for whom a vaccine is pointless, and who are at dramatically higher risk of liver cancer (somewhere between 15-50% lifetime risk of an extremely deadly type of cancer), and for whom a cure would literally be life-changing, if available.