Buncombe County is partnering with the WNC Safety School to bring bloodborne pathogen training to tattoo and piercing artists throughout our region. The first of its kind in North Carolina, ...

Buncombe County offers bloodborne pathogen training to tattoo and piercing artists. Posted on October 28, 2015 October 28, 2015 — Max Hunt. Image via _MissAgentCooper/flickr.

Read on to learn more about tattoos and HCV, including if a person with HCV can get a tattoo. ... Bloodborne infectious diseases: HIV/AIDS, hepatitis B, hepatitis C. (2016) ...

NILES, Mich. — If you've recently had a piercing done at a certain local tattoo parlor, you may want to take a blood test as soon as possible. That's according to officials with the Berrien ...

Additionally, the potential of bloodborne diseases exists. ... Additionally, "clothing (47%) has been used to hide tattoos, with some people doing this for as long as 25 years" (p. 414).