Dana Smith, a resident of Queens in the US state of New York, pierced her nose and almost died. Reported by CBS New York.
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A month after the piercing, the 37-year-old woman felt abdominal pain, but did not seek medical attention. She lost her appetite, and soon she “began to vomit blood.”
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In January, the American woman’s sister took her to Long Island Medical Center. It turned out that she had hepatitis B. The woman needed an urgent liver transplant
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According to doctors, the infection got into the bloodstream from a piercing in the nose.
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“I thought that I just had a stomach virus or something like that. I would never have thought that my liver was failing and that I could die,” said Dana Smith.
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