{"id":10438,"date":"2018-09-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/14\/patrons-of-vampire-facial-spa-may-have-been-exposed-to-hiv\/"},"modified":"2018-09-17T16:04:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T16:04:01","slug":"patrons-of-vampire-facial-spa-may-have-been-exposed-to-hiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/14\/patrons-of-vampire-facial-spa-may-have-been-exposed-to-hiv\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrons of &#8216;Vampire Facial&#8217; Spa May Have Been Exposed to HIV"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Inspection at the VIP Spa in Albuquerque detected practices that might spread HIV or hepatitis B and C<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>FRIDAY, Sept. 14, 2018 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Customers of an Albuquerque spa who received a &#8220;vampire facial&#8221; are being warned that they may have been exposed to HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C through human blood used in the controversial procedure.<\/p>\n<p>In a vampire facial &#8212; popularized by Kim Kardashian and other celebrities &#8212; a patient&#8217;s blood is drawn and then injected back into the face using micro-needles. But the New Mexico Department of Health says an inspection at the VIP Spa in Albuquerque detected practices that might spread HIV or hepatitis B and C, <i>CBS News<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We undertook the inspection because a client of the VIP Spa developed an infection that may have resulted from a procedure performed at the spa,&#8221; state epidemiologist Michael Landen, M.D., told <i>CBS<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>His agency is urging that anyone who received a vampire facial at the spa get tested as soon as possible, especially if the procedure happened in May or June. Testing would be free and confidential, they added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/vampire-facials-at-new-mexico-spa-may-have-exposed-customers-to-hiv\/\" target=\"_new\"><i>CBS News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i>   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspection at the VIP Spa in Albuquerque detected practices that might spread HIV or hepatitis B and C<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-10438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}