"Family remembers hepatitis B victim as a girl with promise"

Two weeks after being diagnosed with acute hepatitis B virus infection, Kesha Johnson, a 15-year-old Minneapolis teenager, died of fulminant liver failure. Although Kesha’s death occurred in 1994, IAC continues to tell her story to illustrate why hepatitis B vaccine should be available for all children and teenagers.

This story, which appeared in the “St. Paul Pioneer Press” on August 16, 1994, is copyrighted.

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