LYNNWOOD, Wash.  (Metro)  -- Health officials say a bacteria found in tattoo ink is the cause of skin infections developed by people who received tattoos last year at a Lynnwood parlor. 

Michael Kinzer, who's an epidemic intelligence officer for the Centers for Disease Control, says investigators traced the bacteria to ink used to tattoo an Everett woman, a Bothell woman, and a person from King County. 

Kinzer says the infection is slow to proceed. 

He says there are currently no FDA regulations regarding tattoo ink, but that could soon change.

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