From fjames@u.washington.edu Thu Dec 18 08:28:52 1997 Received: from jason01.u.washington.edu (root@jason01.u.washington.edu [140.142.70.24]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id IAA33176 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 1997 08:28:49 -0800 Received: from homer06.u.washington.edu (fjames@homer06.u.washington.edu [140.142.76.13]) by jason01.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id IAA14072 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 1997 08:28:48 -0800 Received: from localhost (fjames@localhost) by homer06.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id IAA22778 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 1997 08:28:46 -0800 Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 08:28:46 -0800 (PST) From: Frank James To: Washington public health assessment coordinators Subject: Re: Body Piercing In-Reply-To: <82589834014C3700@smtp.hub.doh.wa.gov> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Some of you may be interested in knowing that there are cases of HEp C transmission with body piercing, even more unusual is that not only is tatooing associated with risk but it appears that the hep c virus can even be recovered from the ink lines and wells associated with the process. Frank James MD Whatcom and San Juan Co Health Officer On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Lukens-Bull, Katryne A. wrote: > Hi to everyone and I hope you are all having a wonderful Holiday Season. > My vacation was wonderful and I decided to leave my brain in Bali and > just return physically so do not ask me anything important. > > Anyway -I am interested in knowing if anyone has a strong interest in > body piercing. No I do not mean personally but as far as regulation is > concerned. DOH is having a meeting on the topic of should body piercers > be licensed or regulated or not. They have a few LHJs attending but > wanted to make sure everyone's voice had a chance to be heard. They are > hosting the meeting on January 5 in Olympia. There will be some actual > body piercers attending to give their point of view. This seems very > preliminary so let me know if you have and interest (or others in your > department) and it you are interested in attending. Thanks > > Katryne Lukens Bull, MPH, CHES > Washington State Department of Health > Office of Planning > 1112 SE Quince St. > PO Box 47890 > Olympia, Wa 98504-7890 > Phone: (360) 664-9381 > Fax: (360) 586-7424 > Pager: (360) 971-0586 > kal0303 @hub.doh.wa.gov > > .