The New Mexico Department of Health (DOH) warned people who received “vampire facials” from a now-out-of-business spa to get tested after an HIV case was confirmed in connection to the business.
Former clients of VIP Beauty Salon and Spa, located in Albuquerque, may have been exposed to HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C if they received Botox, a vampire facial, or other “injection-related service[s],” said the DOH in a news release. It came after a 2023 report about an HIV case being linked to a vampire facial that was done at the VIP Spa in 2018.
The department warned that those with an “indirect connection” to VIP Spa services should get tested for the blood-borne illnesses. It said that it has “identified additional HIV infections with direct or indirect connection with services provided” by the spa. “Following the 2023 identification of a new HIV case associated with the VIP Spa, DOH has reopened the investigation,” it also ssaid….