Hepatitis: Unwanted Souvenir (1968)

Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your project. A Navy training film warning sailors and Marines that infectious hepatitis (hepatitis A) is the souvenir they don't want from overseas duty. Through a jaundiced sailor who ate raw mussels, it covers symptoms, the weeks-long recovery that costs the Navy a cruiser's worth of manpower each year, and fecal-oral transmission via shellfish from sewage-polluted water, produce fertilized with "night soil," and food handlers who skip washing up. The rest is prevention: stick to reputable restaurants, eat only well-cooked food, skip raw salads, ice, and local dairy, and soak produce in a bleach solution. Closing line: you risk your liver, not your life — but you'll feel half alive for a long time.