it depend upon the health of your immune system
because viral infections can often re-occur if you are run down by bad diet or another different infection
the problem really is if your liver is so damaged that it is only borderline functional and you overstress it with say bad diet and you cause a vicious cycle leading to the top paragraph
Hepatitis in rare instances can die from chronic hepatitis hepatitis in adults when infants and later exposures as an adult tend to have.