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posted by martyb on Saturday September 15 2018, @01:13PM   Printer-friendly
from the bad-blood dept.

'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.

Also at WebMD and SFGate.


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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 15 2018, @02:17PM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 15 2018, @02:17PM (#735295)

    I once pointed out* that wiping a bloodied knife with a paper towel and continuing to cook food for others with it wasn't sufficient and they needed to change knives, and it genuinely seemed to surprise them that I considered it dangerous. They were genuinely confused that I would object to that and initially thought I was just being picky.

    *to a person with a bloodborne STD

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  • (Score: 2) by DaTrueDave on Saturday September 15 2018, @04:24PM

    by DaTrueDave (3144) on Saturday September 15 2018, @04:24PM (#735324)

    I'm assuming you mean bloodied by accidentally cutting the cook, not bloodied by the meat they were prepping? Cooks are very aware of the concept of cross-contamination, but they usually think of it in terms of cooked and uncooked foods, or two different types of protein. They should also be aware of human bloodborne pathogens, but that's something that doesn't get hammered home every single day in the kitchen.

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 15 2018, @04:52PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 15 2018, @04:52PM (#735335)

    FFS people need to practice basic hygiene. How can anybody with a basic education fail to see the problem with being cavalier about bodily fluids getting in food? Alas, it is a cultural problem, not an education problem. Well, the education problem's root cause is a pervasive cultural anti-intellectualism/know-nothingism. Rant:

    As a gay person without AIDS, it makes me very nervous, because if I get it, the view will be that it had to have come from careless, promiscuous sex. I believe in having one boyfriend at a time and not going about things the way the Hollyweird neoliberal scum want to portray it such as in Angels in America or Rent (and don't even get me started on The Rocky Horror Picture Show... nothing progressive at all about these "works," just a collection of reactionary stereotypes). I swear that Hollyweird has done more to associate LGBT with STDs than conservatives could have ever hoped for.

    (st:dis is the first time I've seen romantic relationship between two men treated like any other relationship--no promiscuous sex, no drug abuse, no AIDS, and it's about love and commitment not sex, G-rated, just like any lesbian or heterosexual couple... well, compare and contrast L'Rell's X-rated heterosexual scene [nospoilers!])

    Just wanted to vent.

  • (Score: 2) by istartedi on Saturday September 15 2018, @06:56PM (3 children)

    by istartedi (123) on Saturday September 15 2018, @06:56PM (#735381) Journal

    What does the health department have to say about knives that have cut a cook? What's the standard? Clean with alcohol, autoclave or just replace?

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    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 15 2018, @10:22PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 15 2018, @10:22PM (#735443)

      Clean it with fire. But if the knife has been used to cut jewish skin (fore or other) then burning it would constitute a holocaust and you will be made an unperson. But if you cut a jewish throat with it and then cut a pig then it is considered ok.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by Pslytely Psycho on Saturday September 15 2018, @10:30PM

      by Pslytely Psycho (1218) on Saturday September 15 2018, @10:30PM (#735444)

      I believe it's just wash the damn thing.
      Seriously.
      Where I work there is a restaurant. They are very strict about cuts and burns. The head chef must personally replace the knife, see to it that it is washed, and inspect and approve the wound to either allow the cook to continue (with a proper bandage ) or send him to E.R. for stitches. There is always a grey area on if it's bad enough for stitches of course. So anything borderline is left up to the cook to decide if he wants further treatment.

      And, of course a proper incident report is filed as well.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 16 2018, @03:57AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 16 2018, @03:57AM (#735536)

      What does the health department have to say about knives that have cut a cook? What's the standard? Clean with alcohol, autoclave or just replace?

      A late family friend was a decontamination specialist in the health service, her stories about what survived on some surgical items randomly tested after autoclaving as part of the QA system would make me say 'just replace', or the old nuke from orbit....