Tattoo artist says people are being harmed - ABC 4.com - Salt Lake City, Utah News.
Chastity Bendele had a health scare when she chose to tattoo her leg. “I was horrified,” says Bendele. Within hours a sore was forming. “My tattoo started oozing and crusting,” says Bendele. She had a form of a staph infection doctors were able to kill with antibiotics, but tattoo artist, Jared Preslar, says some aren’t so lucky. “We’ve seen it go from an infection into the flesh eating bacteria,” says Preslar. He is seeing an increase in people coming into his Layton tattoo shop with festered sores. They want their tattoos fixed, but he sends them straight to a doctor. “It’s like zombie flesh. It looks like pizza, like the skin is gone and you can see the fatty tissue,” says Preslar.
