Gap year and HBV infected

This call sums up the "Gappers" best off they go to places where 80% of people catch HBV and they tend to actually practise transmission routes, they being from the UK are usually the only unvaccinated kids in the country. High on the list of risks reported are dentistry, tattooes, first aid needs being attended to, contact sports and beauty treatments. The girl above was infected traveling through places where the Innuit Indians are 10% positive for HBV. We got her boyfriend vaccinated and her family, unfortunately she went chronic as again is all too common with travellers they are where they often get too little rest and are drinking too much alcohol. Every year just as we get fresher calls, usually from shared razors in dorms, we get "gappers". One contact sports party to the far east again a 10% infected 80% catch place saw half the group infected. Thailand is another venue with such levels and although all the bar girls are now vaccinated it is the tattoos and dentists who have no idea any first worlder is unvaccinated who do most of the infecting. Imagine 3 pricks and the HBV on the dental pick is yours, and the average tattoo or teeth clean takes hundreds. With tattoo anywhere the transmission is from cross contamination, the hbv is on the tattooists cloths on his phone on his walls floors and tables on his ear ring and they touch these then your gaping tattoo over and over for sometimes hours. This is what is so crazy when a tattooist says I got a new needle and ink, imagine if in surgery the surgeon said I got a clean needle and thread! What about every millimetre of him and his environment, why don't they walk around with their hands in front of them knowing they must never ever touch anything else? Basically tattoos are as infectious as unprotected sex and tattooists in the UK don't even have to read the cross contamination manual we have campaigned for 12 years to get yet!