Knowledge
of
hepatitis
B was low overall. Vietnamese respondents were more
likely than were other students to know that
hepatitis
B affects the liver (35.6% vs 22.6%). However, they
were muchless likely than were other students to
correctly identify sexwith an
infected person as a risk factor for
infection (13.7%vs 32.8%).
Independent predictors of this
knowledge were: whiterace; older age;
attending
high school versus middle school; having
been taught
about
hepatitis
B
in school; knowing
the definitionof
hepatitis
B; reporting
better grades; having
a family memberwith
hepatitis
B; and
being
more highly acculturated
Hepatitis C cases
soared by 300 percent in Boston during the past four years,
mirroring state and national trends, the city's Public Health
Commission reported yesterday.
While
the rate of HIV infection among prison inmates has remained steady
since 1999, a surge in inmates with deadly Hepatitis C has caught
the state system off guard. Hepatitis C, a deadly liver disease
which can be contracted through intravenous drug use, is being
called the new HIV/AIDS epidemic, challenging
corrections officials in Massachusetts
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