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Dental cleanings were also a factor. They did not sterilize utensils!
I can remember the humiliation of rectal temp checking at the Naval base hospital in Charleston, SC. They reused the same thermometers on all the kids, with proper precautions
I had it and never had a blood transfusion, but I believe I got it during service when they were doing air shots and people were bleeding from moving in 75
That is how I caught Hepatitis..through a transfusion after my last baby was born, in 1977
I am sure that dental instruments had part in Hepatitis C in the population.
My late husband dialed from HepC, cirrhosis of the liver. He would be 67 now if he lived. He did do drugs in late 60’s & early 70’s. He did some shooting up. But said he never shared needles. He always believed he got it in early 80’s from blood transfusion after a motorcycle accident. It kills me to know they came out with the cure not long after he died.
I would like to know what studies of genotype 2 have found. Do you have any information?
Julia Gillam
When I was a child, doctors reused needles + syringes right in front of us. Gave one child a vaccine. Stuck it right back in the multiuser vial and withdrew the next dose for next child. This actually contaminated the entire vial for whoever gets vaccination from that bottle.
May 14, 2024 • Rockwell North Carolina