Five cases of HIV and AIDS have been reported from vampire facials in the United States. Photo: File
New Mexico: Experts have warned that the increasingly popular controversial beauty method, the ‘vampire facial’, is increasing a number of infections, including AIDS.
Although it has come to have some benefits, the vampire facial has been criticized since its inception and has even been called life-threatening.
In this process, plasma is extracted from your own blood. The plasma is then filled into the vaccine and injected into different areas of the face with fine needles. This microneedle facial leaves the skin looking more vibrant and youthful. A facial lasts for a few months.
A beauty parlor in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was closed in 2018 after two women were infected with HIV, and the case has now been reopened.
The Deputy Secretary of the US Department of Health, Dr. Lara Perahon, has said that another case has come from the same beauty parlor, which is not HIV, but she has become a patient of AIDS. Thus, 5 cases of infection have occurred from the same beauty parlor.
The woman who owns the beauty spa has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison. The woman had not sterilized the reusable needles and did not have a license to run a beauty parlour. It should be noted that the American agency FDA has not even approved the vampire facial.
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