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Fact: Aids and even Heb C came into view it had already been widely spread through blood transfusions for many many years because the markers had not been develop to find the disease in blood, unforchantly like many new disease it is only discovered after there is lots of damage to the individuals health or they die and after it has been widely spread through blood transfusions
Fact: The screening for virus HEP-C wasn't introduced until 1991 when it is believed the signs and symptoms had been around since 1950's.
Devil's Advocate: I am going to play devil's advocate here for a moment, what if unforchantly your blood infected a baby or child, or a mother, or anyone else for that matter, would you be all right with that and just shrug it off and say I had good intentions, I read a Fortune Cookie once it said "The Road to Hell Is Paved with Good Intentions'
Fact: Patient groups are calling for all those who had a blood transfusion or received treatment derived from donated blood before 1991 to go get tested for disease.
True Case: : Widespread shock in 2004 when Dame Anita Roddick announced she had hepatitis C, she caught the virus, which destroyed her liver, after a hospital blood transfusion in 1974.
Sadly Dame Anita Roddick in need of the blood to save her life while giving birth had lived with hep C for more than 30 years before discovering she had it, by which time she was suffering from cirrhosis (severe scarring) of the liver.
She died three years later aged 64 of a brain haemorrhage, a rare complication of the disease.
She did not take the inherent risk associated with receiving a tattoo or other known causes, yet she became infected through what was to be a lifesaving blood transfusion and lived a live of illness and died as a result of complications caused from Heb C.
Fact: No one who has had a Blood transfusion is allowed EVER to Donate Blood
Fact: Up to 4 million Americans are chronically infected with the hepatitis C virus.
Fact: The hepatitis B virus, or HBV, can still be infectious for up to a week outside the body.
Fact: The hepatitis C virus, or HCV, can live outside the body for up to 4 days.
Fact: Research from the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases showed that out of 3,871 people studied (half with hepatitis C and half without), there was a significant association between having one or more tattoos and having hepatitis C. In short, the study found that people with hepatitis C were about three times more likely to have tattoos.
Reality: Cross Contamination transfer of HEP-C can happen very easily if strict guild-lines are not followed, OSHA requires all tattoo artist to be trained in there guild-line.
Scenario: The customer before you has HEP-C and your artist has blood on the gloves worn during the applying of his tattoo, he touches anything and transfers blood fluids onto the item, then he inadvertently uses the same item while tattooing you, power supply knob, spray bottle, tattoo machine, ink bottle, then he touches your skin or the tattoo needle and tattoos microbes, the bacteria viruses right into your body, hence you have now been infected, but nothing happens tell 20 years later when you discover your going to die from live damage or any of the 12 other side effect caused by HEP-C.
Conclusion: I mean you new the risk when you got the tattoo you signed the waver with warnings about possible infections, and not be able to give blood, so you now why complain?, why want to even take the slightest risk of possibly causing harm to someone because of your personal choices?
Safe: Simply fact if you have received your tattoo in a state or city that strictly regulates tattooing your going to have a very reduced chance of contracting HEB-C or HEB-B from a tattoo if the tattoo artist actually follows all the strict safety procedures. But lets be on the safe side, lets not risk someone life on a opinion, lets be safe and let the individuals who are in the business of blood for life saving make the expert decisions on when to adopt a change to waiting periods.
Professional Opinion: I know the risk I have been tattooing for over 25 yrs professionally and have known both artist to die from HEP-C, and other individuals too.
Today: more then ever the public is receiving tattoos from unlicensed, untrained, non-certified individuals, in non-sanitary conditions and in uncontrollable environments.
Questions: How many will report that the tattoos were not done professional?
How many people do you know today who have home made tattoos?
How many people do you know say a friend or a cousin doing tattoos out there house?
How many many times have you heard about a tattoo guy at a house party?
Answer: probably lot if your age 16 to 35 and have tattoos.
Time for Action: I am personally trying to do something to help protect our future generations, the public's health from making bad choices and reduce the transition of Disease from underground tattooing individuals.
Question: would you go to someone house to have a your teeth removed or get acupuncture treatments, probably not, because you would be afraid of something going wrong and for good reason.
Law: It is against the law and public health regulations to perform like a doc, nurse, any type of practitioner unless you have been licensed or have certification do any type of medical procedure.
Definition: Tattooing is a minimally invasive medical procedure is defined by the medical community, as one that is carried out by entering the body through the skin.
Presently: there are no laws, regulations, or codes in place to protect our community health from disease transmitting through underground tattooing individuals.
Social Perception: if it's was wrong or that risky for you would the government make it illegal, not until a lot of people die or we take action.
Risk: Your teenager, brother, sister or even mother maybe unaware of the high risk of contagiousness disease from improper tattooing procedures, and go ahead and get a tattoo while at someones house party and spends the remainder of there life fighting for their life because of it.
Protect: Help make our community aware and our community future health a government priority support the "Tattooing Public Safety Bill 2012 http://stop-tattoo-scratcher.blogspot.com/
Regards: Randy Holder
