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Military Hepatitis C
Found this really interesting site about different wars and hepatitis C.
www.heathersveterans.org/hepatitis.htm
www.heathersveterans.org/hepatitis.htm
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Pretty sure that's how my boyfriend got it, he told me that same story almost word for word...and he never went to vietnam, never shot up drugs...just a sad sad situation...it's messed up
A while back I saw, what I assume was a military cover-up story, like this one, where they claimed Vietnam vets got hep C from either drug use or prostitutes in Vietnam.
Many vets from that era, including some of our members on the forum, will tell you stories about the air-jet gun inoculations. They were so sharp, that if you moved slightly, they cut you. The men were lined up, and each were given a shot, without cleaning the gun in-between. My husband recalls guys walking down the line afterwords with blood dripping down their arms.
Many vets from that era, including some of our members on the forum, will tell you stories about the air-jet gun inoculations. They were so sharp, that if you moved slightly, they cut you. The men were lined up, and each were given a shot, without cleaning the gun in-between. My husband recalls guys walking down the line afterwords with blood dripping down their arms.
That is a completly disturbing article OH and you bring up a very good point about the geno types.
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It's too bad they left out the very real cause of so many Vietnam vets exposure to hep c via airjet gun inoculations while in boot camp.
I believe the military tries to cover this fact by blaming the Vets themselves for being involved in risky behavior while in S.E. Asia.
If they did contract it in S.E. Asia, why do we only have people with genotype 1-4 in the US while S.E. Asia has genotypes 1-6 ?
According to http://hcvets.com
Each Hour Of Every Day, Three People Die From Hepatitis C
(HCV Disease)
Two Of These People Have Military Backgrounds