Hep C caused by military air-injected immunizations

[bronzestar]

I want to know if anyone knows of persons that may have had air-injected immunizations while i the military (vietnam era)? They line up one by one and get hit with the same air-injected gun, everyone had blood running down their arm. I firmly believe that's where I first came in contact with the virus but it could be a number of other things too.

[JimmyMose]

Only remember the air-injection guns

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i get medical treatment at the VA because of low income. Didn't have any service connected reasons.   Acquired HCV about 12 years after
GT2 F3/F4 and was lucky to start SOV/RBV 2 days ago.

[ceejay1962]

Trying to build a case...

Looking for folks who received immunization shots via hypodermic needles - not jet-guns.

I received over 40 immunizations in the Marines between 1961 and 1966. Most of the time the the corpsman reused the same needles and drug vials over and over again.

Does anyone else remember that?

CJ

[ceejay1962]

It seems that the Military and VA are doing the same thing with Hep C as they did with Agent Orange... Deny, deny, deny the connection but when the barrels of the smoking guns turn red, quietly start treating veterans.

They're now treating Hep C patients but primarily with Interferon plus Ribaviran and they just added Gilead's new Direct Acting Antiviral Sovaidi (the $1000 a tablet stuff).

By the end of the year or early 2015 they will stop blood letting/ leeches (nterferon and Ribaviran) and switch to DAAs (Direct Acting Antivirals).

I'm probably going to get back doored into a SC disability because of the Camp Lejeune, NC Drinking Water Contamination program.

http://benefits.va.gov/compensation/claims-postservice-exposures-camp_lejeune_water.asp

I was stationed at Camp Lejuene, NC for a total of 18 months on 4 different occasions between 1962 and 1966.

The Marine Corp knew about the contaminated water but did a cover up for years. The Navy stepped in and continued the coverup.

It's finally recognized by the VA and is in the same category as Agent Orange and Radiation Exposure.

They're still jacking applicants around though with a 92% denial rate for benefits. Currently you have to have one of 15 specific conditions.

I have two of them, Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma and the other day I was diagnosed with probable bladder cancer.... 50 years after the exposure!  

I turned in my application for disability this week.

I have to say, the VA system is radically better than it was in the 60s and 70s. Thanks in part to our brethren from the conflicts in SW Asia.

CJ

[RickVaug]

I was a flyer in the USAF and got mine in 89 / 90 Desert Storm from a Gamma Globulin (whole) shot (hep A&B protection) Prior to 1993 they didn't check for Hep C since it was only known as non A/B.
Lot of Vietnam era Vets got it through shots / some of the recreational things that were going on / riding in an open helo with someone that was wounded and had hep C could even spread it / the jet guns were notorious because they didn't clean the damn things from the blood and air would just keep pushing it in to others so one infected person could infect a bunch

[orphanedhawk]

I agree with you rocketguy. They don't want the ugly truth of how the military spread hep C to millions to become common knowledge.

[rocketguy536]

I was in the AF from 1971-1974.  I started going to the VA in 2011. they did some blood work and I came back positive for Hep C.  When I went to see the Liver specialist, it struck me as kind of strange when he said,  oh yea, you've had Hep C for 40 years.  40 years ago I was 23 and in the AF.  I think they know something and they're being hush, hush about it!