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'Vampire Facial' Becomes Actual Horror As N.M. Spa Clients Face HIV Testing
The vampire facial was only supposed to sound scary. Sure, it involves extracting the patient's own blood, isolating the platelet-rich plasma by spinning it in a centrifuge and then re-injecting it into the face. But the results are touted to be rejuvenated, smooth and supple skin, not an HIV or hepatitis scare, as clients of the VIP Spa in Albuquerque, N.M., are now facing.
Health officials say those who received the vampire facial there — or any other type of injection-related service — at the spa between May and June 2018 were potentially put at risk of contracting a blood-borne disease. The New Mexico Department of Health is urging them to come for free HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C testing as well as free counseling.
The department was tipped off after a spa client "developed an infection that may have resulted from a procedure performed by the VIP Spa." Health and state regulatory officials performed an inspection and found problems with needle storage, handling and disposal. A health department spokesman told NPR while it is still early in the investigation, no other infections have been identified.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 15 2018, @02:17PM (8 children)
"the big problem I have with the idea is that the people with the power to 'deep clean' the gene pool might decide that you too, Mr AC, are of one of the 'strain of idiots' that needs wiping."
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They would be wrong, and they would pay for their error with their lives.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 15 2018, @02:39PM (6 children)
That's cute that you believe that.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday September 15 2018, @04:46PM (5 children)
I'm have no personal relationship with AC, but maybe he's right. Not every AC is the typical "internet tough guy" that everyone expects him to be.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 15 2018, @05:00PM (4 children)
sure, anything's possible. he could be an anunnaki for all we know
but it sounds like you know something! i've never heard of an arkansas militia before though
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday September 15 2018, @05:24PM (3 children)
https://arguard.org/ [arguard.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 15 2018, @05:33PM (2 children)
Ah. There is the Second Amendment context to the National Guard being the well-regulated militia, but I was more thinking groups who reject that interpretation such as the Montana and Michigan militias.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Saturday September 15 2018, @05:45PM
Smaller militias have a presence in Arkansas - but you hardly notice them. All that is required to qualify as a militia, are a couple dozen members, and at least one pompous old fool to claim the rank of colonel. The militia's charter should be of more interest than it's mere existence, or number of members. The charter, and it's mission statement, are the first things to consider when exposed to any militia.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 15 2018, @06:24PM
The national guard having a second amendment context.... I believe you are likely operating under a common misinterpretation of 'militia' that is based on changes in meaning to the word over time.
The militia in context is everyone who can fight, excluding those too young, too old, or otherwise unable to do so(*).
Everyone else IS the militia.
(*)It would also have excluded women and slaves historically, but that's a distinction that resides properly in the dustbin of history.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 16 2018, @04:33AM
No, no they wouldn't, unless you just happen to have a dead mans handle on a global release system for a virulent pathogen with a 100% fatality rate for hominids then they wouldn't note your passing as anything more than just another fractional percentage point in their overall stats.
The mistake most commonly made is in thinking that when they do decide to thin the herd they'll be engaging in a 'Mano a Mano' type confrontation and that you can fight them and/or make them pay, the reality is that they'll 'dust' what they deem to be problem areas and then mop up the survivors (if any).
Pandemics (now with added bio-artificing goodness!) are such wonderfully plausibly deniable things...