Military Veterans

[brandej]

Are there any Hep C positive veterans out there who received vacinations with the air injector gun while on active duty in the early 1970's or late 1960's?  The veteran population from that time period has a high prevelence of Hepatitis C and some believe that the air injector method of giving vacinations used at that time might be the cause.  I was in the Marine Corps from 70 to 74 and remember being vacinated with this method where we were simply lined up and injected one by one by stepping forward to the injection station.  The air injector gun shot a high pressure pre-measured dose through the skin on the upper arm.  The end of the air gun that touched the arm could not have been sterile as I remember seeing bleeding arms on some after the shot was given.  This has recently been added to the list of risk factors for Hep C.  Comments??

[klynn848]

This is probably far fetched since the original post is so old but it is worth a shot! My father served in the Marines from 1971-74 and he has Hepatitis. He was diagnosed some time ago, and is sure it was contracted from the inoculation shot he received while in the Marines. I am doing research for him trying to figure out what needs to be done to give him the correct information and paperwork needed to receive social security disability benefits. Thank you in advance!

Krista

[Dee1956]

I think this is why they are telling everyone born between 1945 and 1965 to be tested.

I got a gama globulin shot in 1977 which I believe had HCV

[Expo81]

I was in the the Army from 81-84 and was vaccinated with the air gun method and as a medic I’ve used these guns. I was diagnosed with hep-C in 2010 with a liver transplant in 2013 due to the Hep-C I’m interested in finding out what is the Geno type most veterans are coming up with mine was 1-B there could be a correlation there.

[Dee1956]

If any of you are still here, please read this.  When they knew

https://asknod.wordpress.com/2015/03/15/jetguns-when-they-really-found-out-the-truth/

[orphanedhawk]

This is an old thread but the subject is not. There are still people discovering they have hep C and were given it via airgun injections while in the military.

Check out this site: http://www.hcvets.com/

[Carlhcv]

Old thread. I didn't know this forum was active back in 2001! When I was a kid we were all injected that way! We all have the scar on our upper arms to show it.

[meana66]

My husband also was in army 1971-1972 korea and also in Germany after that I believe 74-76 he passed away in 2007 from hepc heptacelur carcinoma this was 2-3 months after he was denied sc for hep c by way of air jet gun vacinations. I just received his medical records in2015  waiting for the appeal need new evidence