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Thursday, August 23, 2012

Study: Tattoo Infections Traced To Tainted Ink

An outbreak of infected tattoos has led to an unlikely source: the ink.

With the growing popularity of tattoos, health officials say they are seeing more cases of a nasty skin infection caused by a common bacteria traced to the ink. In the largest outbreak, 19 people in Rochester, N.Y., ended up with bubbly rashes on their new tattoos, researchers reported Wednesday.

Infections from tattooing are nothing new. Hepatitis, staph infections and even the superbug known as MRSA have been tied to tattoos. Dirty needles and unsanitary conditions are often to blame.

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12 comments:

Anonymous said...

Makes me want to run out and get inked. Tatoo's are so cliche now that in the future it will be hardcore to not have any at all. It is a right of passage for just about every 18 year old girl to get one on her birthday and piss her father off. Whatever...

Anonymous said...

Any body dumb enough to get a tattoo deserves whatever disease they catch.

Anonymous said...


Awsome looking tat!

Anonymous said...

My wife of 35 years got her first tattoo. It was of a butterfly just above the hair line in her pubic area. It's really neat, because when I turn her up-side-down, she looks like Willy Nelson with a bow tie on.

Anonymous said...

Willy Nelson never had that much hair on his head.

Anonymous said...

Lets see what it looks like when she is 60. Second thought I don't want to. map

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Anonymous said...

I have never understood why people would mutilate their body with street grafiti

Anonymous said...

Any body dumb enough to get a tattoo deserves whatever disease they catch.

August 23, 2012 4:21 PM

You sound like Rosanne. Except she is a has-been and you are a never-was.

Enjoy your status. It will never change.

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Tattoo infection is something very painful. We need to be very careful while creating tattoo on your body.

Jack K Richards said...

Personally I think tats like that are freaky. If a Marine wants the corp logo or a guy wants his wifes name, that is one thing but cannot imagine going thru all that just to look as tho you belong on the runway at a carnival Just my humble opinion

Anonymous said...

and then there was the 18 year old female that had a pony tattoo placed on her breast. At age 60 it became a giraffe.