Body piercing performed under nonsterile conditions has been linked to infections such as hepatitis B and C viruses as well as HIV.

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Of these, 13 women were drug users, most of them intravenous, 31 had either had tattoos or body piercing, chiefly pierced ears, and 17 had had earlier surgery, another risk factor.

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Professor SAPOLSKY: It was at this point that I decided that Paul needed to do the phone calls because this was way beyond me, and he called up 50 body piercing parlors.

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But lately Japan has a few well-publicized reasons to worry about its own young people: a 14-year-old Kobe boy's gruesome murder of a younger child, a 13-year-old Tochigi boy's fatal knifing of a teacher, an upsurge of teenage theft and prostitution, an epidemic of teen rudeness on trains and streets, an explosion of outlandish clothing, tattooing and body-piercing.

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By simply piercing the surface of the water, you set off an energy force within the body of water that extends outward, impacting anything it touches.

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