| 1948 Blood Experiments | US Army makes deal to recruit volunteers for hepatitis experiments with Mr. Durnquist, the Attorney General of the State of Minnesota, with respect to the possibility of conducting experimental work on volunteers in the penitentiaries. Mr. Durnquist was favorably inclined to the idea and quite optimistic about its feasibility...
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| 1950's Korean War Blood and Plasma | The Blood, Plasma, and Related Programs in the Korean War- A plasma program was also developed which later had to be discontinued because of the risk of serum hepatitis associated with plasma infusions
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| 1960's Vietnam Blood and Plasma | Korean War and Vietnam troops given serum gamma globulin- a high risk factor for hepatitis c
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| 1977 Warning | Furthermore, the efficacy of the ISG, manufactured in 1944, against apparent type non-A, non-B hepatitis suggests that this overlooked disease has existed from at least that time. |
| 1978 ISG- 90% had acute HCV | 14 batches of anti-D immune globulin contaminated with hepatitis C virus... Within 6 months after anti-D administration, 10% of these women had no evidence of disease and 90% had acute hepatitis C
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| 1987 DoD Follow-up | Serologic Follow-up of 1942 Epidemic of Post-Vaccination Hepatitis in the U.S. Army- outbreak was linked to specific lots of yellow-fever vaccine stabilized with human serum
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| 1990 FDA Jetgun Autoclaves Recalled | FDA Enforcement Report- Vernitron Majestic Table Top Sterilizers, Models 8080, Recall...The locking hub may detach from the unit at high pressure...compromise of sterility... (note: these autoclaves were used to sterilize the Ped-o-Jet Jetguns used by the military. Sterilization could not be guaranteed.)
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| 1994 Detection HCV RNA in immune globulins | More than half of the commercial intramuscular immune globulin lots, including specific immune globulin. All immune globulin products examined were reactive for anti-HCVproducts, were HCV RNA positive. All immune globulin products examined were reactive for anti-HCV.
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| 1995 Experiments | Philadelphia Inquirer “On the Trail of Tainted Blood-Gives an in-depth report of our Governments knowledge of Hepatitis transmission. Experiments with human volunteers from the military, prisons and state hospitals were abandoned...plasma-induced hepatitis...scientists, meanwhile, said the products were dangerous
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| 1997 | Did Shots Cause Hepatitis C? Officials Downplay Concerns- They found the genetic fingerprint in batches used for decades to inoculate soldiers against hepatitis A and B
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| 1997 DoD Jetgun Report | Vaccines in the Military- Wide review of Vaccine Policies and Procedures ... says, ...jet injector nozzles were frequently contaminated with blood, yet sterilization practices were frequently inadequate or not followed."
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| 1998 manufacture of human albumin | Chromatographic removal and heat inactivation of hepatitis during the manufacture of human albumin- purpose to examine efficacy... manufacturing process
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| 1999 DoD Jetgun Policy Chronology | Military discontinues the use of jet guns for mass immunization of military troops U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) needle-free injection policy chronology
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| 1999 Military Link | Hepatitis C Origin Points to Military...Responses to the request by the Department of Defense indicate that soldiers at major U.S. military training bases during the late 1960s and 1970s were used to test vaccines...
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| 2001 VBA Fast Letter Boost Hepatitis C Claims | In the Fast Track letter, Carolyn F. Hunt, Acting Director, for Compensation and Pension Service states: "..needles (and other objects that puncture the skin) are contaminated with HCV infected blood and are then used by others, HCV can be transmitted.
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| 2005 VA Surgical Clinics Investigation | EL PASO, Tx - A Beaumont Army Hospital staff member contracts Hepatitis "c" and now several patients are also infected. Up to 5% of all the patients tested so far have tested positive...
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| 2006 DoD-USCG Jetgun Defects | ... due to safety concerns...use of the same unsterile nozzle and fluid pathway to inject consecutive patients ... were usually refilled quickly from attached multidose vaccine vials...2–8. Jet–injection immunization devices
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| 2011- CDC Vaccine Guidleines | CDC guidleines for appropriate vaccine administration. the following guidelines for standard practices during injections of vaccines were not followed by the military during the height of the hepatitis epidemic. Needles, syringes and vials were commonly reused.
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| VA Defines Hepatitis C Risk Factors | VA Risk factor for HCV disease. HCVets explain why the source of infection is unknown in so many patients.
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| Prevalence of Hepatitis C | ...resulted in a policy of immune globulin use for all deployed soldiers. By 1970, rates were one-half to one-third of the earlier rates... Hepatitis B immune globulin is listed as a Red Cross Risk Factor for transmission of Hepatitis C.
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