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| Kuta Beach. Australian health authorities have said a patient diagnosed with HIV likely caught the virus while having a tattoo done on the Indonesian resort island of Bali. (JG Photo/File) |
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Sydney.
Australian health authorities have said a patient diagnosed with HIV likely
caught the virus while having a tattoo done on the Indonesian resort island of
Bali.
They
recommended that people who had recently been tattooed on the island, known for
its white, sandy beaches, partying and nightlife, should consider being tested
for HIV and other blood-borne viruses.
Authorities
did not reveal any details of the patient concerned.
“All the
evidence points to a tattoo received recently in Bali as being the source of
the infection,” Western Australia’s Department of Health said in a statement
dated Friday.
“This case
demonstrates the very real health risk in having this type of procedure done
overseas,” said Paul Armstrong, the department’s director of communicable
disease control.
The
department highlighted the risk not only of tattoos but also of body piercings,
saying that besides HIV, patients were also potentially exposing themselves to
Hepatitis B and C as well as bacterial infections.
Indonesian officials
said last year that the number of known HIV/AIDS cases on Bali was soaring,
with one in four prostitutes reported to be HIV-positive and the number of
infections jumping almost 19 percent from the year before.
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