Are sports becoming unsafe?

Are contact sports like wrestling, boxing, basketball, and others becoming more and more unsafe? Studies are popping up every day on the transmissions of HIV, Hepetitis, and more due to blood, sweat and saliva and other bodily fluids from one person to another. You play sports for enjoyment, stress relief, and healthy physical reasons to get more fit and stay in shape, but are you putting yourself at risk for certain diseases that can be transferred by bodily fluids? What happens if someone gets injured and bleeds during a game? What happens when you rub your body up against another sweaty body or saliva gets spewed into your face or on a cut or scrape on your body.

A just released article in Turkey on Hepatitis B virus testing and immunization should be mandatory for professional or Olympic athletes participating in contact sports has raised many concerns. Turkish Olympic wrestlers whose blood was tested were found to have occult HBV infection and in many of the infected wrestlers, the virus was detected in their sweat as they trained, which suggests it might be easily transmitted to fellow wrestlers, the study found. The finding of HBV DNA in the wrestlers' sweat raises the concern about transmission through bodily contact, as wrestlers and participants of other contact sports not only sweat profusely but often sustain bleeding wounds or exudative skin injuries during training or competition.