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"Test The Rest" Campaign
Vietnam Era Veterans Hepatitis C Testing Enhancement Act
Action Needed!!
 
Jetguns- Bringing down hep-c
American Legion Post 1619 is urging all Vietnam vets to get tested

 
Jet guns should be a recognized risk factor for hepatitis C
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.


 
Forget stigma, boomers: Get tested for hepatis C
By PAUL HARASIM / RJ
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.
 
Newsweek-
VA's Hepatitis C Problem    
By Gerard Flynn

 
Orange Count Registry
Vietnam vets blame 'jet guns' for their hepatitis C
By Lily Leung Feb. 14, 2016 
 

By Judith Graham
VA Extends New Hepatitis C Drugs to All Veterans in Its Health System

 

 
Denied Hep C VA dental care?
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Dried Hepatitis C Blood Exposure 11/23/2013 Weeks later inconspicuous blood transmits virus and more likely to cause accidental exposures to Hep C
 

Lack of Standards
Mass Vaccinations
1970 Jetgun Nursing Instructions
 

2014 AASLD Study Hepatitis C not an STD

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The Liver and Hepatitis C

 
Legal- Fed Regs state:
Judge decision may be relied upon
Cotant v. Principi, 17 Vet.App. 116, 134 (2003),
 
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Military Related Documentation

1843 -1987 History of Syringes
1948 Army Hepatitis Experiments
1948 Development of Hyposray for Jet Injection
1950's Korean War Blood and Plasma
1959 Blood Test might have prevented hundreds of thousands of cases of  hepatitis C
1960's Vietnam Blood and Plasma
1964-1975 Drug Use in Vietnam
1964-1975 Hepatitis C Drug Use in Vietnam Era Vets
1969 Pharmaceutical Experiments some died in an extended series of drug tests and blood plasma experiments
1970 Army Basic Training Medical Handbook
1970 Military Guidelines Manual for Jetgun use.
1971 Red Cross Warning About Australia Antigen-Discovered in the blood of an Australian aborigine
1975 Contamination grossly inadequate quarters for control testing
1976 Red Cross- Blood money: what Red Cross donors didn’t know
1978 Prison blood still shipped to Vietnam
1988 A microbiological study
1989 Red Cross fail to cooperate
1990 FDA Jetgun Autoclaves Recalled
1995 Experiments with human volunteers from the military
1995 The Basic Training Environment-Chapter 8
1996 FDA knew bad blood was shipped
1996 WHO Jetgun Warning
1997 Did Shots Cause Hepatitis C?
1999 Federal Safety Needle Legislation
1999 Military military training bases during the late 1960s and 1970s
1999 Prevalence of Hepatitis C
1999 Vaccines in the Military- DoD Review of Policy
1999 WHO & CDC Global Injections
2000 CIA Global Infectious Disease Threat
2001 Policy Change Surgery
2001-2009 Hepatitis C Transmission
2002 Blood Task Force lays Criminal Charges
2002 Small Pox Needles & Jet Injectors
2003 Aids Crisis & Dirty Needles
2003 Dangers of EMG Needles
2003 Global Burden Italy
2004 CDC Report Finger Stick Device Lancets
2005 Documentary
2005 Global Burden Egypt
2005 Gloves Transmits HCV Disease
2005 Hepatitis C and Dead Bodies
2005 Needleless Connectors Relationship
2005 Red Cross
2005 USA Surgical Tissue Adhesive
2005 VA Surgical Clinics Investigation
2007 Vaccine- Department of Defense (DoD) immunization program
2007-2009 Veterans Affairs Reuse Insulin Pens
2008 HCV via contaminated Surfaces
2008 USP Policy Change-Multiuse Vials
2008 VA Nevada Exposures
2009 CDC Report- Hemodialysis Unit
2009 Dental treatmen was commonest conventional risk factor
2009 TN VA Wrong Valves
2011 Finger Stick Device
2012 CDC Information for Providers
2012 Hepatitis C Transmission Confirm
2012 Test- Veterans exposed to same source infections
2013 Alternative vaccine delivery methods- Jetguns devices should not be used
2013 HCV transmitted by biopsy forceps
2014 Preventing infection from the misuse of vials
2015 More Accurate Hepatitis C Prevalence
2015 VA and DoD More Accurate Prevalence
Hearing Transcript - House Committee on Veterans' Affairs
Hepatitis C Symptom burden, medical comorbidities, and functional well-being of patients with chronicHCV
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