Hepatitis C

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Do any of you know if this is considered service-connected for Vietnam? One of the guys from my company in Vietnam has it. We rarely had enough rubber gloves to go around so we didn't routinely wear them when treating casualties. We had the blood of hundreds on our hands in the course of a year and knowing what I know now it is a wonder we all didn't get it. Hepatitis is the one disease that can go through unbroken skin. Get an infected drop of blood or feces on your skin and you can catch it. Anyone have any experience with it and the VA?