This article is poorly researched and poorly written by Alex Zavatone. He glamorizes the almighty "tatoo". The reality is that the very act of getting a tatoo immediately places an individual into a "high" risk group for either contracting or transmitting Hepatitis B...and much worse...Hepatitis C. Getting a tatoo is simply not worth the risk. Hepatitis C is also known in the medical fraternity as the "silent killer.