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Hepatitis Anyone? You may want to reconsider before getting your nails done or a fresh hair cut. Why? Clients innocently walking into barber shops and nail salons are unsuspecting of the potential dangers that lie in a nail clip or a razor. Customers may be at risk for Hepatitis infection if the paraphernalia are improperly sterilized.
Although there are laws and regulations that require barber shops and nail salons to disinfect their finger bowls, razors, scissors, clippers, brushes and foot basins, there’s no guarantee that the procedures are being followed.
Researchers analyzed a Virginia Department of Health report on the risk of contracting Hepatitis infection through the use of unsterilized utensils in barber shops and nail salons. They are to present their findings at the annual scientific meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology in Washington D.C.
In a news release, Dr. David A. Johnson, of Eastern Virginia Medical School, questions whether there is sufficient compliance with the disinfection protocols that nail salons and barber shops are supposed to follow.
Dr. Johnson is concerned that the study of the transmission of infectious diseases like Hepatitis B and C are grossly understudied in the United States – thus putting many people at risk.
The study was prompted by a case of acute Hepatitis C which was “clearly related to a manicure/pedicure treatment” according to Dr. Johnson.
Hepatitis causes the liver to swell and can be a lifelong illness.
As a customer, your best bet (and your right) is to ask your clinician if he follows procedure – and then watch to make sure he or she does! If he doesn’t, insist that he does, or tell him you will switch to another provider.
Another alternative is to bring your own clippers, scissors, razors and nail files to your appointment.
In order to reduce Hepatitis transmission, it’s important to educate yourself about how the disease is transmitted. Get proper training if you’re a nail technician or a barber. Use good hygiene and disinfection in the work place. Sanitize all utensils after use.
There are no current federal government infection-control guidelines for preventing the spread of Hepatitis in barbershops or nail salons, but you can use the guidelines presented above to protect yourself and others.
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Islah Ali
July 21, 2012 at 3:18 pm
as far as the hepatitis more research is needed and perhaps more people should bring their own supplies until the nail solons can show that are sterilizing their equipment. I am thinking though, they will raise their price. Capitalist always pass fees on to the consumers.
do your own nails. have a party and do each others pedicure and manicures. Lets stop giving our money to others. The hair braiding industry is another rip off. 200 dollars to braid hair, or if you have short hair salons will not charge you a lesser fee than someone with longer hair but they will charge someone with longer hair more money. The mark up on hair care is outrageous. Learn to do your own hair and nails. Not only for health reasons but for financial reasons as well. Those salon techs are driving mercedes and you are driving what, some of you dont have a car but help pay for thiers expensive taste. They make $4000 dollars a month give or take a few. Lets find a better way to take care of our hair and nails and invest that money in something we all can benefit. Just my two cents
Islah Ali
July 21, 2012 at 2:58 pm
Along the same line as thatbrothafred and Derrick, I must say I enjoyed viewing some of your solutions. I dont know much about Asians but I know it wasnt long ago that they too treated us like dirt. When you walked into their stores they would follow us like we were going to steal something.
I think now they realize that they make money from us and they hold that nonsense down now. But it is business and that is all.
What are some of the solutions. I was reading a philosphical comparison between Martin Delaney and Frederick Douglass: Two traditins in African American Political Philopshy. One ideal being assimilationist and one the separatist. Frederick of course tried to prove this theory of assimilation was the best thing for the “colored” man/woman. But after trying to put those ideas in practice, that is Frederick he realized it would not work at least not in this country. These two meshed in self-interest and sympathy but Douglass differed mainly that all men equally had human nature and therefore a moral code. Well we know that anytime you remind the slavemasters and their heirs about letting our people go, they tighten their grips and dare us to resist in truth you are punished if you resist or want to do for yourselves. Taking this into account I have to agree with the one who said we need our on sphere, our own place our own home which was originally Africa. As we know that is a nother scramble for African and it is called neocolonialism. When you exam the ideaology and philosophical view or lack there of American Blacks and even Colonial blacks, their view is mostly white washed or underdeveloped to say the least. We are taught to assimulate but more than that not to resist the assimilation although there is not rewards for it or real inclusion. No freedom to speak of and no equality. Lets not even think about the pursuit of happiness. Slavery is what Slavery does. It continues and with the new jim crow craze it should be a wake up call that slavery still exist. The enemy teaches the young that the black problem or racist was a thing of the past and most bought it. So what should we do about it? That is the real charge that lingers before us. Whether we think in the box or out, we have to think. So in short, I agree with all i have read here today. However, What next?
CommonSense King
July 12, 2012 at 1:28 am
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ALICIA RAE
July 11, 2012 at 3:06 pm
Most of them don’t wear acrylic nails either. I get an occasional manicure (no acrylic), but after seeing the condition of a few women feet while they were getting a pedicure, I vowed to never let them use those tools on my feet, sterilized or not. I do my own feet, but might let them do a design for $5.00.
Derrick
July 11, 2012 at 2:15 pm
These slant eyed japs and chinese are guilty of this!
Do those negroid females think these nasty chinks are cleaning those clippers and nail water they use on negroid customers?
This is where this hepatitis is coming from…these chinks. When you look into their shops they always have on surgical masks, but those negroid females sit up there with nothing over their mouths and suck in those chemi(kills).
These crackers blame EVERYTHING on Black people. The picture says a lot!
START CUTTING YOUR ON d**n HAIR AND DO YOUR OWN d**n NAILS…FVCK THEM CHINKS!!! THEY DON’T GIVE A d**n ABOUT NEGROIDS.
Carl
July 11, 2012 at 6:56 pm
I like you,Derrick.I can tell that you are a very sharp,and conscious brother like myself.I’ve been trying to explain this to black people for the longest time.Our people,especially black women,are hard headed.Are you on facebook??
Derrick
July 12, 2012 at 2:25 pm
@Brother Carl:
I know what your are going thru! I talked to a lady friend yesterday, and she said the same thing you said…it’s hard explaining the Truth to our people. But, they are waking up because they are witnessing the Truth in front of their eyes!
They are speaking out and this is a step forward. I love my people, but there is so much hate and jealousy, but we will OVERcome this wickedness!
KEEP THE TRUTH COMING…CONSCIOUS BROTHERS AND SISTERS HAVE BEEN WAITING!!!
THATBROTHAFRED
July 11, 2012 at 11:19 pm
Mr. Derrick what are you mad at asian people. Have you ever been outside this country. Look, just to cut this short I been to Asia. And the people their are very nice and respectful and treated me like a king over their. WHen I got back here I do have to be real , yes some of these people do adopt the racism in this country due to negative media reports about us. Think about it , how do other people get the news about black people? Easy! The bullshit news. People all over the world can identify with our pain. I’m just being real brotha. You have to get a passport and travel to those places to get a different view of people. Every body in the world is not a racist and they don’t hate our people. Now moving on I do agree with you to learn how to support our own and do our own thing like Dr. Claude Anderson said. I’m tried of us not getting our due here in our communities. I think the first thing we need to do is respect ourselves, family, friends, neighbors and God. Focus more on math and science, and less on these bullshit churches that don’t give a d**n about us. I can see by your writting that you have very strong views and I respect that brotha. At least your not rocking the “Boule” or these other bullshit black organization that don’t give a d**n about you or me. But brotha you have to understand lets just talk about different places like Asia, Mexico, and South America. Believe it or not,their is black people their too and also some of these people have darker skin and have ancestors their too who I believe is also African. Again my brotha, no dis but just passing on information that needs to be address. Peace!
Derrick
July 12, 2012 at 2:47 pm
@BrotherFred:
I respect your comments. I have been to every major city in the unuted snakes of a******s (usa), I have been to 4 foreign countries and getting ready to go to the Motherland!
I have witnessed what you have witnessed, and I do not categorize all people the same. I catch h**l from my OWN PEOPLE…h**l let’s keep it real, my OWN FAMILY, even! Therefore, I know where you are coming from!
Do you know that over 100,000 caucasoids give up there citizenship to go to Afrika to live every year! The only thing I hate about these asians, is that the males are using our Black Afrikan sisters to get male boys!!! This is an epidemic in Afrika with these chinese and other foreigners, who are abusing our women, like they did during our FORCED enslavement.
These foreign corporations are in Afrika tearing down the trees, poluting the air and killing our people for their economic greed! Afrikan men use the trees for carving to make a living, they use the water for fish; they don’t value materialistic items.
Did you know that japan, china, germany, england, canada, and the bad ole unuted snakes are usurping Afrika as we speak for oil, diamonds, gold and other raw materials? While our people starve to death for their greed? THIS IS MY CONCERN.
What happens to Afrikans; happens to us here in amerikkka! Didn’t our forced enslavement start in Afrika? Then where did it start? THAT’S MY CONCERN!
We must stop worrying about how these people treat us because all they want is our money. I’m pretty sure you didn’t see too many asian females with Black men in asia? Get my point!
Of course they’re gonna treat you good while you were there because you are just a VISITOR! There is a difference when you LIVE in a city versus visiting one!
EXPERIENCE IS THE BEST TEACHER!
Mexico was FIRST ruled by a Black Mexican by the name of Vicente Guerror! A True mexican will tell you that the ORIGINAL mexicans were BLACK!!! The ORIGINAL asians were Black. The same with the Arabs, who were the Black Muurs/Afrikans/Morrocans (Moors). We have many cultures within our culture, but we are ALL BLACK AFRIKANS…period!
We are the only people, who hate the Motherland, the birth of civilation, invention, the Black Messiah and Black Goddess, who birthed the world!
Peace & Truth
THATBROTHAFRED
July 13, 2012 at 12:02 am
Thanks brotha, no problem from me. I aslo want to say this how come their is a chinatwon in every city or every country across the world? Why can we do something like that. Why can we start to make little “Harlems”? Im just saying. And also I do see your point but when I was staying in Japan. They treated me like a king but when I got back to Hawaii I was treated like a n****r. I understand why and it was because what’s getting put out thier in media about us. One sista said to me she was dating this Korean guy and all he wanted to do was “get down to the biz” as you know what I mean. The Korean dude did not have no respect for her. And I ask her how come you was not interested in a educated brotha like me and she told me “she know not of such kind” And I was like d**n. Moving on.. I have to be honest my family is now half black/half Asian. At first I did catch h**l from the parents but not extreme, ya dig. The most h**l I got was on the islands of Hawaii. Even though my nephew is mix(black and Hawaii). Black people are not really accepted their unless we spending money, ya dig. I got more racism in Hawaii then any where else in my life. And you see I’m from C.A. so I was not expecting it over their but those people really hate us. Not all but the majority. WHat we as a people need to do is have our own space. And do our own thing. We need to really find a place to where we can call home because currently I feel like us black people are just wandering here. Just to let people know most of the laws in this country was design during slavery to keep black folk in check. And at the same time as these states/county/city design these laws our fathers and mothers could not even read or write. But I bet you our people knew that “King James” holy bible from front and back. Lets keep it 100% too! I also want to add , WHy should we keep supporting a religon that even though it got us through slavery but it’s holding us back to think outside the this thing we call a “Matrix” or “box”? WHy can our people see that what ever happen to us in history? The world did not start 2000 years ago ( this is the time frame of the bible). What ever happen to our religon or culture or values? What happen to our family? d**n! Am I right or wrong? Thier is a lot lost. I recently just started to love math. I was never taught correctly about math. It took my friend who is also Asian and a scientist to help me up my game about math, also watching the movie “Hidden Colors” and learning from those wonderful teachers in that documentary , math is our gift from God. I was reminded thats how we build those pyramids. So thier been alot of stuff s****h from us. In closing since we all came from maybe the West Africa coast is that our cultrue we should row with then? Thanks, Peace.
Derrick
July 13, 2012 at 6:35 am
Brother Fred:
Please do not call yourself a ‘n****r’!!! If you read some other articles I wrote about it, you will find out, that the FIRST and ORIGINAL ‘niggards’ were caucasoids! As a matter of Truth, they called themselves ‘NIGGARDS’, because of their ‘niggardly’ deeds toward our enslaved brothers and sisters.
Next point, my brother: the ORIGINAL Hawaiians were BLACK! My father went to Hawaii and went on a field trip. The brother, who rode them around was a Black Hawaiian and he gave them the True ourstory of the True Hawaiians.
CHECK THIS OUT:
The Great Black Kings of Hawaii: President Barack Obama proclaims King Kamehameha Day – By Oguejiofo Annu
The Great Black Kings of Hawaii: President Obama proclaims King Kamehameha Day
HONOLULU — President Barack Obama is urging the nation to celebrate Kamehameha (kah-MAY-hah-may-hah) Day along with Hawaii.
Obama who is the first black as well as the first Hawaii-born president of the United States signed a statement Thursday proclaiming June 11, 2010, Kamehameha Day in honor of “King Kamehameha the Great,” the great black King of the Black Hawaiians before its conquest by American sponsored aggression.
King Kamehameha unified the Hawaiian Islands under one government. See his picture posted. View the video the Black Kings and Queens of Hawaii, posted on Rasta Livewire.
The Native Black Hawaiian:
Not many people realize that the original Hawaiians are a Black people and have been living in the western pacific for as long as time can recall.
It is even more important to reflect about the true ethnicity of the original Americans who were either killed off by the westerners as claimed by western historians, or must have been sold down the river and degraded down into and hidden behind a facade of a slave or “negro” class.
Hence they are millions of Black Bajans, Black Khalifania or Californians, Black Hawaiians, Noble Muurs who have always lived on the western hemisphere before the rise of Christopher Colons (Colombus). Those masses are still alive mislabled as the African Americans. Miseducated by miseducation.
The slave trade did not bring every black person to America. Some came from the Atlantic triangular slave trading system. But others were simply kidnapped in this Americas, and mis-labelled as slaves and negros (necros) by the American slave code of the old south, a law passed by the European pirates and their descendants to undermine the pre-existing black order and black population (again parallel to the fate of Hawaiis black population).
There were millions of black people, Muurish people living on this side of America, from New York to Baja California, through Georgia and Alabama. They were there as natives, as indigenous people, the in-dios or Indians, children of the Gods.
Black people were living in the Americas and the western Pacific as Kings and Queens, long time before the first pale European stepped out of the caves.
And this is the importance of recollecting and celebratng the history of the great black Kings and Queens of the Americas, like our great Father King Kamehameha, who has been honoured by our great brother President Baracka Obama.
President Obama in that very spirit calls on “all Americans to celebrate the rich heritage of Hawaii with appropriate ceremonies and activities.”
Muurs must take note. Blacks-a-moores take note. Negros and African-Americans must also take note. Get a picture of King Kamehameha of Hawaii, research his story, and reflect on the reason why you look so much like the first Kings of the Americas.
King Kamehameha’s legacy is preserved in Ke Kanawai Mamalahoe, or “the Law of the Splintered Paddle.
Oguejiofo Annu
June 12, 2010
MY BROTHER, THE TRUTH IS RIGHT UNDER YOUR NOSE!
Peace & Truth
Derrick
July 13, 2012 at 6:56 am
@Brother Fred:
You are right about other races having their OWN COMMUNITIES, in major big cities, such as China Town, German Town, Korean Town, Polish Town, Juu Town and so forth and so on. But, in Detroit, which is a city with a population of 85% Black, the caucasoids, DID NOT LET THEM BUILD ‘AFRICAN TOWN’!!!
You see who still CONTROL Black folks, in a majority Black populated city…caucasoids!
We need to start boycotting…that’s the ONLY solution to this polution. We once had our communities back in the 1920′s. There was Rosewood in Florida, another Black area in Tulsa, OK called Black Wall Street where Blacks OWNED EVERYTHING AND HAD EVERYTHING, they needed to survive without the help of caucasoids!
These racist yankees burned both of these communities down, looted and killed the Blacks, who were doctors, lawyers, judges, and ever day people working and HELPING EACH OTHER. One of the Black areas even HAD A SMALL AIRPORT!!!!
These Blacks OWNED their own cab companies, bus companies, and insurance companies and this was in the early 1900′s. WHAT DO WE HAVE TODAY?
Now, you see why I feel the way I do.
Peace & Truth