Myth vs Fact Quiz

Like many diseases, hepatitis C is surrounded by myths that can delay treatment and take a toll on the quality of life of patients, friends, and family. Take this quiz to sharpen your appreciation of hepatitis C and its treatment.

1. If you've been diagnosed with chronic hepatitis C, but don't feel any symptoms, you don't need to go back to the doctor.
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2. Hepatitis C is caused by a virus, and can be treated with antibiotics.
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3. Once I've completed treatment for hepatitis C, relapse is highly unlikely.
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4. PEG-INTRON® is the only once-weekly therapy that adjusts the amount of medicine I take based on how much I weigh.
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5. Most people who became infected with hepatitis C did so before 1992, because that was the year that hepatitis C testing for blood donors began.
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6. Fatigue is the most common symptom of hepatitis C.
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7. HIV is more common than hepatitis C (HCV).
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8. Hepatitis C can cause cirrhosis or liver cancer.
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9. My family can't be infected with hepatitis C because they have been immunized against other forms of hepatitis.
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