Tuesday, February 01, 2005
The Perils of Needles to the Body
By LORRAINE KREAHLING
At a tattoo and piercing parlor on St. Mark's Place in Manhattan recently, Young-Cho, an experienced tattoo artist, applied a small winged horse to Mara Fallon's shoulder.
He dipped his buzzing instrument into a small plastic cup of blue ink and then appeared to draw with the electric needle on Ms. Fallon's shoulder. 'It feels like when you pull hairs out when you rip off a Band-Aid,' she said.................
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Tattoos and body piercings have become so common that they hardly attract notice. One recent study of 7,960 college students in Texas found that one in five had at least one tattoo or piercing of a body part other than the earlobe.
But health officials say they are increasingly worried about the health risks posed by such body modification practices, including physical disfigurement and bacterial and viral infections, and not only from needles that draw blood in potentially unsanitary conditions...
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At a tattoo and piercing parlor on St. Mark's Place in Manhattan recently, Young-Cho, an experienced tattoo artist, applied a small winged horse to Mara Fallon's shoulder.
He dipped his buzzing instrument into a small plastic cup of blue ink and then appeared to draw with the electric needle on Ms. Fallon's shoulder. 'It feels like when you pull hairs out when you rip off a Band-Aid,' she said.................
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Tattoos and body piercings have become so common that they hardly attract notice. One recent study of 7,960 college students in Texas found that one in five had at least one tattoo or piercing of a body part other than the earlobe.
But health officials say they are increasingly worried about the health risks posed by such body modification practices, including physical disfigurement and bacterial and viral infections, and not only from needles that draw blood in potentially unsanitary conditions...
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