By PAUL HARASIM / RJ
A number of veterans as
well as doctors now
believe that Vietnam
veterans...could have
contracted hepatitis C
through unsafe jet gun
vaccinations.
While it’s possible the government’s position on transmission of hepatitis C among boomers may have resulted in less testing, it’s critical today boomers forget any fears of stigma and get the easy blood test.
1969:
On June 9, 1969, Dr. D.M. McArtor, then Deputy Director of Research and
Technology for the Department of Defense, appeared
before the House Subcommittee on
Appropriations to request funding for a project to produce a
synthetic biological agent for which humans have not yet acquired a
natural immunity. Dr. McArtor asked for $10 million dollars
to produce this agent over the next 5-10years. The Congressional Record
reveals that according to the plan for the development of this germ agent,
the most important characteristic of the new disease would be "that
it might be refractory [resistant] to the immunological and and
therapeutic processes upon which we depend to maintain our relative freedom from infectious disease".
AIDS
first appeared as a public health risk ten years later.
Charles Merlin
Umpenhour - 2005 - Political
Science - 568 pages
On
June 9,
1969,
Dr.
DM McArtor, Deputy Director
of Research and ... He
went before a House
Subcommittee on
Appropriations and
requested $10 million to be
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