Guest guest Posted July 19, 2004 Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 for the health card all i had to do is read a stupid booklet on proper food handling and take a test and to a shot TB test thingy - they never asked about the hep - go figure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 19, 2004 Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 Yup we do get some big bad mean kitty's here in this area -- one of them being my Siamese who loves to kick major butt and come home to lick his wounds ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 19, 2004 Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 I have a funny feeling that is what happened with me and a lot of my class mates. When I was in school they did mass vaccinations in the schools with a gun thing and I don't believe they changed the needles between each or cleaned the gun or any thing. And the "clinics" were open to not only the kids going to the school but adults as well. A lot of my class mates have hep C now and amazingly enough it was written off to cocaine use and sharing of straws -- what doesn't make sense is not all of use were drug users. I being one of those. And my older sister who was in the drug crowed has so far tested negative. Figure that one out...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 19, 2004 Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 You are very right about this Pat. About 20 % of the vet community will be affected by the Hep, while only 7% of the general population will be. Yet we have to fight, on a daily basis, to get our claims with the VA recognized. Many of us believe that the air guns used for injections in the induction process are one of the main causes for infection, yet the VA doesn't see it that way. Dick California At 05:14 PM 7/19/04, Pat McBride wrote: Our vets are treated like street people(and many have become just that),We all have been to the vet site and its heart breaking to hear the stories what they have been through, the VA really makes me steaming mad...My Dad and brothers were in vietNam and thank God they were lucky enough to come back healthy and in one piece, But for others ..they are treated so badly and it takes so long for them to help them..Thats the thanks they got when they came home. I really didnt hear much about HepC until the early 70s..Old Joe (syphillis)was what i was scared to get..So I was very careful who I slept with...I was only 20 back then...Hugs, Pat Re: Itchy Skin/Sassy I go to this one web page ever once in a while, hepcvets.com. I was amazed that the goverment tryed to cover it up. A lot of our people came back form oversea with HCV and worse. And it was swept under the rug. I personally feel that is what has happened w/ hep/c. If you ignore it, it will go away!!!! Kathy Brunow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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