Hepatitis: Vaccination

(asked on 7th December 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were vaccinated against the hepatitis D virus in the last three years.


Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
This question was answered on 10th December 2021

There is no licensed vaccine for hepatitis D and therefore the United Kingdom does not have a hepatitis D vaccination programme. Hepatitis D virus can only infect people who have hepatitis B, for which there is an immunisation programme which will prevent hepatitis D infection.

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