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.
