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Human Hepatitis B Immunoglobulin

A human immunoglobulin obtained from the plasma of donors with high levels of antibodies against the hepatitis B virus: it gives immediate protection after exposure to the virus, for example in babies of infected mothers, and is combined with the vaccine for lasting protection. This family brings together the active ingredient.

Did you know?Its antibodies recognise the virus's surface antigen, discovered in the mid-1960s by Baruch Blumberg in the blood of an Aboriginal Australian: this is why it was first called the 'Australia antigen'.