Sarah Varney

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Caption: In this 1971 Army photo, a service member is vaccinated with a jet injection gun. The Army at the time called the gun "a fast, safe method for giving mass inoculations to troops.", Credit: U.S. Army Medical Department

Hepatitis C is more common in Vietnam vets, but nobody is sure why (03:51)
From: American Homefront Project

Some veterans say they contracted hepatitis from the "jet gun" that was used to immunize them in the Vietnam era, but researchers haven't proved that link.