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.
From the British Medical Journal dated Oct 1970.
"Though smallpox vaccination by jet injection is accepted in the U.S.A." it is
rarely carried out in Britain, partly because
of problems associated with the dilution of vaccine LYMPH to
volumes which can be used by jet injectors, and partly because
LYMPH is NOT necessarily bacteriologically sterile and has,
therefore, been regarded as unsuitable for intradermal inoculation."
