New HIV case linked to “vampire facial”
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🗓️ 13 July 2023
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Summary
Have you heard of “vampire facials”? This is the colloquial term for a “microneedling treatment using platelet-rich plasma—a component of your blood that can lead to impressive results when absorbed into your skin.” The treatment promises to “enhance the skin’s overall appearance.” However, it is also a way to contract HIV; a third case has now been confirmed from a now-defunct spa that offered this service.
In other news, a businessman named Mark Exposito is accused by prosecutors of raiding his company’s bank accounts to steal more than $8 million he and his wife used to support a lavish lifestyle.
A dear friend alerted me to these articles and commented on them: “Although very different stories, they share a common thread: a desire to be someone other than God created us to be.”
How can we remember to show a likeness to Christ instead?
Author: Jim Denison, PhD
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:40.9 | Have you ever heard of quote unquote vampire facials? This is the colloquial term for a |
| 0:47.0 | microneedling treatment using platelet-rich plasma, a component of your blood that can lead to |
| 0:53.1 | impressive results when absorbed into your skin. |
| 0:56.0 | The treatment promises to enhance the skin's overall appearance. |
| 1:00.0 | However, it is also a way to contract HIV. |
| 1:04.0 | A third case has now been confirmed from a now-defunct spa that offered this service. |
| 1:09.0 | In other news, a businessman named Mark Exposito is accused |
| 1:12.9 | by prosecutors of raiding his company's bank accounts to steal more than $8 million he and his wife |
| 1:19.3 | used to support a lavish lifestyle. Expozito, the stepson of former U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill |
| 1:26.0 | faces approximately two dozen wire fraud counts. |
| 1:29.9 | A dear friend alerted me to these articles and commented on them. Although very different stories, |
| 1:35.5 | they share a common thread, a desire to be someone other than God created us to be. |
| 1:40.3 | My friend added, sadly, they have missed the fact that we are fearfully and wonderfully |
| 1:46.1 | made by a loving father. In pursuit of something else, we forget to whom we belong. |
| 1:52.6 | Pastor and author, Greg Groschal, agreed. Being consumed by what people think of you |
| 1:58.2 | is the fastest way to forget what God thinks of you. |
| 2:02.1 | Yesterday, we discussed the importance of making public our faith stories of transformation |
| 2:06.6 | by God's grace. |
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