Nearly six years have passed since a day spa in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was closed following a state health department investigation into the facility’s unregulated practice of ‘vampire facials’. A report released this week by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now details five suspected cases of HIV traced to unsanitary procedures carried out at the spa by its unlicensed operator, demonstrating the importance of rapid contact tracing and regulation of invasive treatments. In the summer of 2018, the New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH) opened an investigation into a report of a woman who tested positive on a…