Between 2018 and the spring of 2023, a cluster of clients who had gotten 'vampire facial' microneedling skin treatments at a New Mexico spa were diagnosed with HIV, probably via poorly cleaned instruments, a new report finds.
Between 2018 and the spring of 2023, a cluster of clients who had gotten 'vampire facial' microneedling skin treatments at a New Mexico spa were diagnosed withinfections first came to the attention of public health officials back in the summer of 2018. That's when a woman in her 40s with no history of risk factors for HIVShe had undergone a microneedle-based 'vampire facial' at the New Mexico spa in the spring of 2018.
Next needles -- ideally a single-use or fully sterilized multi-use needles -- are used to re-inject the "platelet-rich plasma" blood back into the face. The procedure is used to rejuvenate the skin.clients with no prior HIV risk factors also tested positive for HIV. Most did not even realize they carried the virus until they developed advancedA fifth case of new HIV infection was detected in the male sexual partner of one of the infected women.
Still, the exact source of the HIV involved in this cluster of cases remains unclear, the researchers said.
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