Personal Risk Assessment

The following questions may help you to assess your risk for being infected with hepatitis C.
Answer only the questions that apply.

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How many blood transfusions have you had:

...prior to 1990?

...between 1990 and 1993?

...since to 1993?

I.V. drug use represents an important risk factor for hepatitis C.

I have never tried I.V. drugs.

I have tried I.V. drugs.

I have tried I.V. drugs for less than 6 months.

I have tried I.V. drugs for more than 6 month.

Tattooing and body piercing has been shown to transmit hepatitis C.

I have tattoos or body piercings.

Sexual activity can represent a limited risk for transmitting hepatitis C. Please select all that apply.

I have multiple sexual partners.

My sexual partner or I have been diagnosed or treated for an STD.

My sexual partner has hepatitis C.

My sexual partner is in a high-risk group for hepatitis C.

Many groups of people have statistically higher risks of infection (some of these for unknown reasons). Please select all that apply.

I have served in the military.

I served in the Vietnam war.

I am a health care or emergency worker who comes into contact with blood.

I have had a direct exposure to blood (needle-stick injury, other injury)

I have been mucosally exposed to blood (splash into eye, nose, mucous membranes)

Someone in my household has hepatitis C.

I had a cesearean section prior to 1990 (you may have unknowingly been given a blood transfusion)

My mother contracted hepatitis C before I was born.

I was ill as a newborn

I am an alcoholic.

I have AIDS.

I have hepatitis B.

I have been in prison.