This is a very short, poorly sourced article with few facts. If you do go to the source, it was conducted in South Korea. Now the question is, where did they get the blood samples? If from ROK RVN vets, who most likely ate more fish than their American buddies, then they would be more susceptible to get the disease.
When I was there it was mess hall cooking or C-Rats. I suspect that’s typical for most US vets.
C-rats? I’d rather eat a roasted rat on a stick LOL
WC Fields said ages ago “They wont get my lead dog Balto”
Why Not Pa?
“I ate him, Last night coming over the ridge, He was mighty good with mustard”
“When I was there it was mess hall cooking or C-Rats. I suspect that’s typical for most US vets.”
Still worth looking into. In 1999, vets had Hep C at ten times the rate of the civilian population.
You’re right, I didn’t catch that.
Never saw a mess hall after assignment to my line unit, just at the repo-depo. Just c-rats. Squad bought a duck from a farmer once, tasted like heaven. When pulled to guard a firebase in a rubber plantation did do some grenade fishin in a small lake. Fish was cooked real well. Also tasted great. Then back to c-rats. I always worried more about parasites in creek/river crossings as we pulled off the leeches wondering what was in there beside just them.
The ROK troops were stationed in a coastal province, think it was Phu Yen, the home of the hardcore VC forces (IV Corps), so if they caught their own fish, this might explain an flukes or other parasites they could have gotten into their systems.
Stories like this need a helluva lot more explanation and data or it will just be another “scare, fundraising ploy” by the left.
I had some rice wine that would taken the paint off your car and killed everything inside of me. Or, my parasites would have been so drunk they couldn’t hurt anyone, ever. Pickled parasites - never thought of it that way.
Best thing was to drink bottled water, rice wine, or soda. Got amoebic dysentery once from drinking jungle water in Guatemala. Forget about the Aztec Two Step.
I was doing the Mayan 4 Step Miler to the latrine in a monsoon downpour and ran so fast, with my knees closed together, that the raindrops missed me.
We should appreciate our safe water in the U.S.