Tattoo ink alters immune cells and weakens some vaccine responses

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4. There is NOTHING "INERT" about tattoo ink... Many have predicted similar findings for decades...

-given the explosion of popularity for tattoos and the dramatic extent of them--not a simple anchor on a sailor's arm or similar, but literally blackening out entire chest and arms or tattoos of more than 75% of the body.

I admittedly have a real anti-tattoo bias, but I have long considered it an individual choice, UNTIL health risks are fairly conclusively established. Now, I am so grateful that I always found them personally distasteful, and most of my friends and family have mostly chosen not to get them.

I might add that laser removal is mostly an esoteric choice--it is unlikely to do much to decrease the risk from what would have been distributed foreign body exposure months and years post-tattoo--and thus the body's response to that exposure.