MUNJI Jet Injector and Hepatitis C

This 1976 Government PSA, provided by CBS News 60 Minutes, shows the use of the MUNJI on a group of individuals.
The U.S. Military used the MUNJI or Multi-Use Needleless Jet Injector for mass inoculations of all military personnel from 1965 until 1999. The problem is that the injector tips were not cleaned between use. Blood splatter and contamination was a common event. Veterans of that era have hepatitis C at a rate estimated from between 4-5 times that of the general population. Our only common link is the MUNJI. The VA refuses to admit this could occur, even though the World Health Organization banned the use of this device in 1992 and the military banned it in 1999.

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[diufygisudfy]

The CDC is very forthcoming on this topic. I am curious what you mean about the VA refusing to admit it. Here is a quotation from the CDC's General Recommendations on Immunization:

Jet injectors that use the same nozzle for consecutive injections without intervening sterilization were used in mass vaccination campaigns from the 1950s through the 1990s; however, these were found to be unsafe because of the possibility of bloodborne pathogen transmission and should not be used.

[ekocentric]

Since they didn't stop using the jet injector gun until a little bit after I got out of basic training I'll have to worry about catching hep-c now...thanx uncle sam.