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Commercially obtained tattoos may be the source of twice as many cases of hepatitis C virus infection as are caused by injection drug use, according to a report by Dr. Robert W. Haley of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Dr. R. Paul Fischer of Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas.
Of 626 subjects interviewed between 1991 and 1992, those with a tattoo from a commercial tattoo parlor had an adjusted odds ratio of 6.5 for hepatitis C ...