In Reply to: Is this true? posted by cpbulli on Thursday, 24. May 2012 at 19:35 Bali Time:
A friend of mine is confirmed by his doctor to have contracted Hepatitis from backyard tattooing here in Perth when he was younger.
I see no reason you wouldn't be able to contract a virus / disease of some sort from tattoo shops that don't clean their equipment.
The biggest problem is that the tattoo gun is hard to clean without the right equipment. Hence there could be a medium for the transfer of the disease etc.
I'm not saying that all shops don't clean their equipment, but i would want to check it out first. Just ask how they clean them.