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New Mexico spa owner faces 24 charges after Vampire Facial clients test positive for HIV Share Updated: 4:47 PM MDT Apr 21, 2021 Share Updated: 4:47 PM MDT Apr 21, 2021
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Show Transcript WIND DROPPING TEMPERATURES. I WILL SHOW YOU WHEN THAT WILL KICK IN. BRITTANY: A FORMER ALBUQUERQUE SALON OWNER IS NOW FACING 24 FELONY CHARGES OVER SO-CALLED VAMPIRE FACIALS. THE CHARGES AGAINST ’MARIA DE LOURDES RAMOS DE RUIZ’ INCLUDE PRACTICING MEDICINE WITHOUT A LICENSE, AND FRAUD. TWO YEARS AGO, AT LEAST TW CLIENTS OF VIP SALON CONTRACTED HIV AFTER GETTING THE PROCEDURE. ATTORNEY GENERAL HECTOR BALDERAS SAYS THIS IS SOMETHING THAT COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED WITH BETTER REGULATIO THE LEGISLATURE REALLY NEEDS TO CLOSE THIS DANGEROUS LOOPHOLE THAT ANY TYPE OF BEAUTY SERVICE BUSINESS CAN PROVIDE SUCH A DANGEROUS FUNCTION IS JUST APPALLING TO ME. BRITTANY: THE A.G. SAYS ANYONE WHO HAS RECEIVED A VAMPIRE FACIAL, FROM ANY BEAUTY PLACE, AND BELIEVE
Updated: 7:32 AM PDT Apr 22, 2021 Maggie Krajewski Digital Media Manager The former owner of a now-closed spa is facing 24 felony charges after an investigation found that at least two clients contracted HIV after receiving a Vampire Facial. New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas announced the indictment Wednesday charging Maria de Lourdes Ramos de Ruiz with a slew of charges including practicing medicine without a license, racketeering, fraud, money laundering and tax evasion.The VIP Salon closed in September of 2018 after an inspection found practices that could potentially spread blood-borne infections such as HIV and hepatitis B and C to clients. In April 2019, the New Mexico Department of Health announced that at least two clients who had received a Vampire Facial at the salon had tested positive for HIV. The clients had received the injection-related procedure between May and September of 2018. In a Vampire Facial, a small amount of a clien
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Sometime – not today, not tomorrow, not the day after, but sometime – professional combat sports events will return to New Mexico.
Members of the New Mexico Athletic Commission, the state board that regulates combat sports, want to help make that happen.
But, with the COVID-19 pandemic still alive and accompanying protocols still in place, the question is how.
And when.
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“We need to start getting ready for when we do start having events,” chairman Joe Chavez said at Tuesday’s NMAC meeting, held via Cisco WebEx.
Compliance with public health orders, Chavez said, is a given. “But we’re gonna have to have our own kind of rules because of COVID for the fighters and our officials and the people participating. … We’re probably not going to be doing any fights within the next 60 days, but I want to start getting ready for what we’re going to require of t