Honolulu—Breast or bottle, cesarean or vaginal birth? These are pressing questions for pregnant women who have chronic infection with the hepatitis B virus (HBV), and fear passing the pathogen to their infants. Now a new study suggests that the risk for vertical transmission of HBV is rare and, what’s more, does not appear to hinge on the method of delivery or feeding.
“This has been a subject of debate for some decades now, but the data on performing C-section is conflicting