'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.
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Two people diagnosed HIV positive after receiving 'vampire facial' in New Mexico
At least two clients of a shuttered New Mexico day spa tested HIV positive, a state health official said, possibly from receiving a "vampire facial."
The two people were infected at VIP Spa in Albuquerque between May and September 2018, according to the New Mexico Department of Health.
The infections came via "injection related procedures," state regulators said in a statement. The health department did not elaborate.
But NBC affiliate KOB reported that the procedure in question is the so-called "vampire facial" — when blood is drawn from a client's body and then re-injected into his or her face.
State health officials fear there might be more people who could test positive for HIV, and hepatitis B and C.
So, slept with any mortals/vessels lately?
Previously: "Vampire Facial" Gone Wrong
(Score: 3, Touché) by crafoo on Saturday September 15 2018, @01:41PM (3 children)
Mistakes were made, but not by us. Unfortunately someone must pay for these mistakes. But not us. Have some free counseling. Maybe they'll tell you to stop spending resources trying to look 16 again and instead grow the fuck up.
(Score: 2, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Saturday September 15 2018, @04:44PM (2 children)
That sorta matches up with my first thought. "Poetic justice" was served. No, no court in any land would agree with me about justice, but the "victims" kinda sorta deserved a good scare, at the least, for going to all this trouble to look like shit.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 15 2018, @11:39PM (1 child)
They are victims, why hate on people for being vain? Pretty much every human does. You shit on your wife for wearing makeup? Would you say she deserves it if some product contained a toxin that seriously jeapordized her health?
Not shocked at your response, just know it is a fucked up one.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by fakefuck39 on Monday September 17 2018, @04:50AM
I think this is the guy who thinks splenda is bad for you because chlorine is a poison. he doesn't know the difference between an atom and a molecule. his comments are not fucked up, they are just all really, really stupid.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 15 2018, @01:45PM (12 children)
... and wipe that strain of idiots off the face of the earth.
The gene pool needs to be cleaned, and very very badly.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 15 2018, @01:54PM (9 children)
Aye, and on my darker days I do agree with you, but 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.
(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...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 15 2018, @03:41PM
Put some chlorine in the gene pool, eh?
(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Saturday September 15 2018, @10:40PM
I prefer the method in an old bash.org post about taking the safety labels off everything and letting things sort themselves out.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 15 2018, @02:17PM (6 children)
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
(Score: 2) by DaTrueDave on Saturday September 15 2018, @04:24PM
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
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)
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?
Appended to the end of comments you post. Max: 120 chars.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 15 2018, @10:22PM
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
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.
Alex Jones lawyer inspires new TV series: CSI Moron Division.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 16 2018, @03:57AM
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....
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday September 15 2018, @03:50PM (3 children)
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 15 2018, @04:56PM (2 children)
Are you going through a nihilist phase? Or is it a swing to far right-wing purge-the-unworthy homicidal extremism?
(Score: 5, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Saturday September 15 2018, @05:29PM (1 child)
I don't think that MDC does phases, or extremism. He's all over the place, and at any given time, he might be in three places at the same time. Schroedinger has nothing on our Mud Duck.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday September 15 2018, @11:18PM
Kuro5hin's mumble developed a text processing language that is based on the <bra|ket> notation of Quantum Mechanics.
To test his code he scraped K5 then plotted histograms whose bins were the timestamps of each user's posts. That enabled him to determine when each member slept, which to a modest extent also enabled him to determine which country they were in, given that we all at least read and wrote English.
My histogram was flat and level. "When does he sleep?" mumble asked.
Doubtlessly some of my Madness is the result of my highly-dysfunctional Circadian Rhythm. It was first discovered by the maternity ward nurses in the hospital where I was born.
It's not at all that I don't need to sleep, but that I don't feel the need to sleep until I'm ready to drop.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 4, Funny) by Bot on Saturday September 15 2018, @04:12PM (1 child)
> as clients of the VIP Spa in Albuquerque, N.M., are now facing
> facing
I see what you did there
Account abandoned.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday September 17 2018, @03:00PM
insensitive clot....
blood withdrawal....
I see what you did there, too!
This sig for rent.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 16 2018, @12:52AM (1 child)
Thanks for explaining what a Vampire Facial is in the summary. No way in hell am I searching that phrase.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday September 16 2018, @05:52AM
Now I know why Low I.Q. Crazy Mika was bleeding so badly. Disgusting!!!