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Table 3 Knowledge of hepatitis B infection among health care workers of Bahir Dar City Administration, August 2012

From: Hepatitis B vaccine knowledge and vaccination status among health care workers of Bahir Dar City Administration, Northwest Ethiopia: a cross sectional study

Question

True

Number (%)

One can get hepatitis B infection through needle stick injury (n = 375)

347 (92.5)

Hepatitis B infection can be prevented by vaccination (n = 365)

347 (95.1)

Hepatitis B virus can be found in semen or vaginal fluid of infected person (n = 370)

325 (87.8)

Hepatitis B infected person may be asymptomatic for long time (n = 372)

323 (86.8)

Every person exposed to hepatitis B virus will develop acute hepatitis immediately (n = 359)

169 (47.1)

Hepatitis B virus is highly infectious (n = 370)

355 (95.9)

Only small proportion of the world population is infected with hepatitis B virus (n = 356)

97 (27.2)

Hepatitis B virus mainly affects liver (n = 372)

359 (96.5)

  1. Numbers in () correspond to the number of answers given.