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